An anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan on Tuesday acquitted President Arif Alvi and senior leaders of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf get together, together with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, within the 2014 Parliament House assault case.
Other leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) get together who have been acquitted on Tuesday embody – Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Labour and Culture Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, Senator Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry and estranged members Jahangir Tareen and Aleem Khan, the Dawn News reported.
The verdict was introduced by Judge Mohammad Ali Warraich on President Alvi’s software, in addition to acquittal petitions filed by the PTI leaders.
Prime Minister Imran Khan, additionally head of the PTI, was acquitted within the case in October 2020.
The president and a number of other others have been booked within the PTV and parliament assault case in 2014 throughout PTI’s sit-in towards the then PML-N authorities. Earlier, President Alvi had refused to avail immunity within the case and opted to look earlier than an ATC.
The president had filed an attraction stating that he wouldn’t be availing his immunity and mentioned that Islam doesn’t permit pardons.
“I have tried to read Islamic history. There is no space for a pardon; I am bound by the Constitution of Pakistan. The Holy Quran is a bigger law than the Constitution,” Alvi had mentioned.
On August 31, 2014, lots of of males and protesters from the PTI and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) camps had allegedly ransacked the workplace of the PTV and Parliament House premises and brutally overwhelmed up a senior police official.
During the sit-ins in 2014 within the federal capital, Prime Minister Khan, PAT chief Tahirul Qadri and a number of other others have been booked over their alleged involvement within the assault.
