DM Report
GUJRAT/ISLAMABAD: The police on Thursday registered a case against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on the charges of terrorism and interference in government matters.
The case was filed by a citizen in the Industrial Area Police Station of Gujrat.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), the Interior Minister threatened the government officials to kill their children and said that Pakistan’s court and its judiciary will not help them.
The FIR added that Sanaullah said they [government] will surround those judges who are going to promote PTI’s agenda.
“Rana Sanaullah’s statement was to terrorise the judiciary, chief secretary and other government officials and to not let them do their job so that they are unable to fulfil their judicial commitments,” stated the report citing an old video of the PML-N leader.
The FIR mentioned that the minister’s statement has caused fear and terror among the judiciary, authorities, police, bureaucracy and the nation.
Soon after the news came out, PML-Q senior leader Moonis Elahi said that the interior minister will be arrested soon.
“You make false cases against Imran Khan, now Pakistani nation has registered a true case against you,” he wrote on Twitter.
The PML-Q was referencing the case registered against PTI Chairman Imran Khan, last week, for threatening an additional sessions judge and senior police officers of the Islamabad Police at a rally in the federal capital’s F-9 Park.
The FIR had claimed that Khan threatened Additional Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry and police officers to “terrorise” the law enforcement agency and the judiciary after which the arrest warrants for the PTI leader were issued.
Meanwhile, PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday secured pre-arrest bail in the terror case filed against him for threatening Additional Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry during a public rally, shortly after he appeared before an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad.
The ATC accepted the ex-prime minister’s bail plea against a surety of Rs100,000, stopping the police from arresting Khan till September 1. The court also issued notices to the police and petitioner. Khan’s bail will be reviewed now at the hearing on September 1. Khan appeared in the ATC in person where judge Raja Jawwad Abbas heard his plea.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media outside court, PTI chair Imran Khan urged those “making and influencing” decisions to consider the country.
He said the world is making fun of Pakistan over news of him being booked in a terror case for intending to take legal action against officials whom he alleges are involved in the torture of his chief of staff Shahbaz Gill in prison.
“Torture and sexual abuse was inflicted on Shahbaz Gill and when I said that I’ll take legal action against the police officials involved and the magistrate who sent Gill into police custody despite torture being proven in court, I was booked in a terror case,” he said.
He said when news of this spread across the globe it gave an impression of Pakistan being a banana republic.
Khan went on to say that he would advise those — who are making and influencing such decisions — to think about the country.
“They are terrified of PTI’s power and are trying to get the head of the biggest party arrested in this case just for a technical knockout and to save themselves,” he added.
