Sheikh Rashid moves IHC to bar police from shifting him to Karachi

Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Shiekh Rashid on Saturday moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to bar the police from shifting him to Karachi from the federal capital and to nullify the cases registered against him in the port city and Murree.  The petition stated that PTI chief Imran Khan had accused former president and PPP co-chair Asif Ali Zardari of conspiring to murder, which Rashid only referred to. It added that the plaintiff in the cases against him was not the victim. The petition urged that cases should not be registered on the basis of political rhetoric and requested that the high court nullify the cases filed against Rashid in Abpara, Murree and Karachi or transfer them to Islamabad. It further implored that the IHC should issue an order to stop Rashid’s transfer to Karachi until the final decision of the case. Rashid named 11 respondents, including the inspector generals of Islamabad, Sindh and Punjab, as well as the interior secretary in the petition. A case was registered against Rashid in Karachi for delivering "immoral” remarks against Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. According to sources, the case was registered at the Mochko police station by a PPP worker over the former minister's comments against the PPP chairman. Read Court sends Sheikh Rashid on two-day physical remand The sources said a police team had been formed and would leave on Saturday to take the AML leader into custody, adding that he would be brought to Karachi. The former interior minister was earlier arrested by the Islamabad police in a late-night raid on his residence in a private housing society for publically accusing former president Asif Ali Zardari of hatching a plot to assassinate PTI Chairman Imran Khan. On Thursday, an Islamabad court remanded him to two-day police custody following his late-night arrest. Rashid was arrested by the Abpara police after a case was registered against him under sections 120B, 153 A, and 505 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of PPP Rawalpindi Division Vice President Raja Inayat.

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