Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday mentioned the police “did their work” and acted in “accordance with the law” to e-book and later arrest PML-N chief retired Captain Mohammad Safdar from Karachi a day in the past.
Shah was addressing a press convention together with senior members of his cupboard a day after Safdar was arrested from his lodge room in Karachi, the place he had arrived alongside along with his spouse, PML-N vice-president Maryam Nawaz, to attend the second anti-government rally below the Pakistan Democratic Motion’s (PDM) banner.
On October 18 — the day of the rally in Karachi — Safdar had visited the Quaid’s mausoleum together with celebration staff and Maryam, the place he jumped contained in the perimeter of Quaid’s resting place and raised slogans, a transfer that had drawn widespread criticism.
The subsequent day, he was arrested by police from his lodge room on expenses of violating the sanctity of Jinnah’s mausoleum and hurling homicide threats at some people. Safdar was later launched on bail the identical day.
Some leaders of the PDM, together with Maryam, had claimed in a presser after Safdar’s arrest that the transfer was an try to implement cracks among the many opposition by the federal authorities and its companies, which “kidnapped the provincial police chief and forced him into signing the arrest order”. The small print of the complainant have been additionally made public and it was revealed that he was an absconder.
The federal government, nevertheless, denied the declare with Maritime Affairs Minister Ali Zaidi calling it a “nonsense narrative”.
In his first media briefing for the reason that incident, Sindh CM Murad Shah on Tuesday introduced {that a} ministerial committee shall be fashioned to analyze the arrest of Safdar, including that PTI lawmakers in Sindh had pressurised the police into registering the FIR, which he claimed was primarily based on a “lie”.
“Certain facts have emerged and those will be investigated […] what occurred from 4:30pm on October 18 till the morning of October 19 will be probed,” he mentioned, including that he may also seem earlier than the committee if required.
Shah clarified, nevertheless, that he was not making an attempt to justify Safdar’s behaviour on the Quaid’s mausoleum and that the “inappropriate” incident that came about there merited motion, which might have been taken in response to the regulation.
However, he went on so as to add, the PTI lawmakers used the Quaid’s mausoleum to file a case below Part 506-B (punishment for prison intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code, which the police accepted.
“First, a PTI MPA files a request at the police station. Officials explained to him that you can’t do this and also explained the process to him. Then another MPA comes and files another request. He is again told the procedure,” Shah mentioned.
“Then another person from the Quaid-i-Azam mausoleum’s board comes to the police station and files a request,” he mentioned.
“He was instructed that sure, it’s a violation, however a Justice of the Peace will take cognisance – not the police.
“They tried to pressurise the police but officials did not succumb to their pressure. The bigger the PDM rally got and the more their incompetence was revealed, they became more and more anxious and filed request upon request,” the CM claimed.
“Scaring and threatening the police and pressurising the force is not the job of elected representatives,” Shah mentioned, including that the Sindh police would by no means do one thing unlawful.
It was solely within the morning that his authorities bought to know what had occurred, Shah claimed, referring to Safdar’s arrest from his lodge.
“They [PTI lawmakers] wanted to do something illegal, their anxiety was obvious. So what they did is that they had a person file an FIR [and] I say this because PTI MPAs were present with the person at the police station,” Shah mentioned.
They filed a false case, Shah mentioned, displaying an image of the assembly between the complainant and a PTI chief. “Do they have any shame? What extent are they willing to go to achieve their goals?”
“Now let me tell you the conspiracy. Waqas gave his details to the police. When his location was traced, it was discovered that at the time of the incident stated in the complaint, he was near Baqai Medical University located on Super Highway,” Shah mentioned, including that he was solely “stating the facts” and {that a} ultimate choice was going to be taken by the courtroom.
In his criticism with the police, Waqas had claimed that he was current on the mausoleum and had tried to cease Safdar from sloganeering however that the PML-N chief paid no heed and later hurled dying threats at him.
“Look at how they malign institutions. More than that, look at how they are using the Quaid’s mausoleum. When a lie [started the whole thing] then complications will arise. To cover up that one lie you will have to tell several more,” the chief minister mentioned.
