An anti-terrorism court issued a bailable arrest warrant against Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Friday after rejecting the police's request to set the case aside. The court was hearing a case registered against Sanaullah in August last year. The police had registered a case after PML-Q leader Shahkaz Aslam accused Sanaullah of threatening to kill the cChief secretary and his family. Read PTI lawmakers receiving ‘threatening calls’: Fawad The FIR had been filed under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (punishment for acts of terrorism), and sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 189 (threat of injury to public servant) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code. The complaint said that Sanaullah, during his speeches on April 16, 2021, and January 29, 2022, had threatened to stop the judiciary from performing its constitutional duties and kill the children of government officials. The FIR had also reproduced the interior minister’s remarks, which according to it were aired on a private TV channel programme in August last year. During the proceedings, the judge issued a show cause notice to the SP Investigation Gujarat, the concerned DSP and the investigating officer for preparing the discharge report of the case and ordered Sanaullah to appear before the court on March 7.
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