ISLAMABAD: The Counter-terrorism Department (CTD) Islamabad Sunday booked the top Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership including Imran Khan for the mayhem in Islamabad a day earlier as PTI Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry said the party will get cases registered against the police officials involved in the ‘illegal’ operation and resorted to violence during a raid at Imran Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore a day earlier.
Life was disrupted in the day-long clashes in Islamabad as many struggled to breathe during the court appearance of PTI chief Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case. The case under terrorism charges was registered on Sunday against PTI workers at the CTD police station for vandalism at the city’s judicial complex during Imran Khan’s appearance before the court. The case has been registered under various sections of crimes including terrorism against the arrested the PTI workers and leaders.
Around 17 PTI leaders booked
Around 17 leaders including Aamir Mehmood Kiani, Ali Amin Gandapur, Murad Saeed, Asad Qaiser, Omar Ayub Khan, Shibli Faraz, Asad Umar, Hassaan Niazi, Ali Nawaz Awan have been mentioned in the first information report (FIR). The FIR states that the PTI workers damaged the police check post and the main entry gate of the judicial complex. As many as 18 people were arrested for arson, pelting stones, and damaging the judicial complex’s building, said the FIR. “About two police vehicles and seven motorcycles were burned, and the official vehicle of an SHO was also damaged,” it added.
The FIR also claimed that pistols, Rs20,000 and anti-riot kits of about eight policemen were also stolen, adding that the police arrested 20 people for vandalism, and burning state-owned vehicles.
The situation resulted in injuries to 52 cops and personnel of other law-enforcing agencies, adding that the PTI workers also damaged 12 Islamabad police vehicles. Meanwhile, three police vehicles of the Punjab police and Frontier Corps (FC) were also damaged by the agitated workers, according to the FIR.
On Saturday, after the PTI chairman left for the Islamabad Judicial Complex to appear before the sessions court, the Punjab Police carried out an operation at his Lahore residence, forced into it, damaged the infrastructure, and arrested several party workers.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Fawad Chaudhry said that the party has planned a meeting of its legal team to discuss the situation. “Today, a meeting of the legal team has been summoned. The way in which the police defied the LHC decision by entering Imran Khan‘s residence has trampled every norm of home sanctity. Things were stolen. They also took away juice packs. Innocent people were subjected to torture,” he tweeted.
Fawad wrote that the situation developing on the political front is the outcome of the continuing constitutional crisis in the country. “Defying court order is unforgivable. The high court should guard its verdict. Cases are being registered on all police officers who carried out illegal operation and remained involved in violence,” Fawad Chaudhry wrote on the microblogging site.
