Rejecting all the stories, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad on Wednesday proclaimed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and PTI leader Umer Tanveer Butt as proclaimed offenders in its order. The court also initiated processes to term PTI’s Aamer Mehmood Kiani as a proclaimed offender.
Judge Tahir Abbas Sipra adjourned the case until January 15 and issued arrest warrants for those absent from the hearing.
This particular case is based on an FIR lodged at I-9 Police Station in the year 2022, with reference to protests led by PTI against the ruling of the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding Imran Khan’s disqualification from holding any public office. The decision referred to his sentence in the Toshakhana case, in which he was alleged to have misused his premiership to sell gifts during foreign visits, amounting to more than Rs140 million.
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From across the country, PTI activists staged protests that became chaotic outside the ECP office. Separately, PTI’s Faisal Javed has petitioned for the deletion of anti-terror charges from the case.
In a recent development, Gandapur got a temporary override on legal proceedings against him last week as the ATC suspended arrest warrants issued in another case and then nullified earlier proceedings declaring him a proclaimed offender.