Islamabad High Court has declared the physical remand of PTI MNAs including members of the National Assembly null and void.
A two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court dismissed the allegations in the cases related to the PTI rally as absurd. Meanwhile, the arrested MNAs were again presented in the National Assembly on production orders.
They were also presented on production orders in the National Assembly. The MNAs in their speeches narrated how they were arrested from the premises of the NA on Monday and Tuesday. Sheikh Waqas Akram, Amir Dogar, Zain Qureshi, and others spoke on the floor of parliament and recorded their protest. Akram said that 2-3 MNAs of PTI including him and Zain Qureshi were the real targets, other MNAs stayed with them in solidarity and got arrested.
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He added that they planned to stay in the Parliament House and attend the session the next day. They believed that they did not think of being arrested by the National Assembly. All the arrested MNAs including Sher Afzal Marwat, Maulana Naseem Shah, Zain Qureshi, and Sheikh Waqas Akram were presented in the court amid tight security. Videos of MNAs stepping out of the car circulated on social media. Amir Dogar stepped out from the car and started chanting slogans of ‘PM Imran Khan’.
MNAs in their brief media talk confirmed that they were not assaulted by police in custody. MNAs said they would represent their case in the NA today in their speeches. The PTI leaders termed the arrests as fascism, and raised slogans of Long live Imran Khan.
The Islamabad High Court suspended the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Court to remand the PTI leaders for 8 days, the Prosecutor General said, suspending the decision would create a bad impression. Responding to him, Chief Justice Amir Farooq said: “I have given a clear observation, how will you defend this decision of physical remand.”