PTI leaders dodge police dragnet
All the top leaders of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have managed to avoid criminal charges in the recent crackdown on party workers in the province. Official sources told The Express Tribune that former prime minister Pervez Khattak, his son Ibrahim Khattak and Imran Khattak did not participate in the violent protests that broke out after Imran Khan’s arrest. Khan. As a result, no case has been filed against them in any part of Nowshera district.
Similarly, former Prime Minister Mahmood Khan also distanced himself from the protests. As a result, he was not named in the FIR registered against PTI supporters in Malakand Division. In Swabi County, the former Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly has been granted bail by the court and is in hiding.
Former minister Shehram Tarakai was arrested by the Swabi police but managed to evade arrest and went into hiding. In Mardan, former minister Atif Khan has not been charged until he directly participated in the protest.
The Swat police registered a case against former federal minister Murad Saeed for his remarks about the intelligence agency and his house was searched several times but he managed to evade arrest. Rumor has it that he fled abroad. Similarly, an FIR was filed against former provincial minister Kamran Khan Bangash in Peshawar and his house was raided 11 times but he disappeared soon after the protests ended.
“The police raided Taimur Jhagra’s house in Hayatabad four times but he was nowhere to be found,” a police official said, adding that the residence and petrol pump were raided seven times. by former MP Asif Khan but efforts to arrest him failed.
In Kohat, police arrested former minister Imtiaz Shahid Quershi along with the district head but in Charsadda district former MNA Anwar Taj was granted bail before he was arrested in the trial and went into hiding.
