{"id":22391,"date":"2024-01-09T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22391"},"modified":"2024-01-09T13:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T08:30:52","slug":"rawalpindi-police-arrest-imran-khan-in-the-ghq-attack-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/rawalpindi-police-arrest-imran-khan-in-the-ghq-attack-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawalpindi police arrest Imran Khan in the GHQ attack case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATC judge rejects police plea for physical remand of PTI founder.<\/p>\n<p>RAWALPINDI: Imran Khan, the incarcerated former prime minister and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the GHQ attack that caused the May 9 mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi summoned the PTI founder, who is already in jail on cipher and graft charges, in May 9 cases today (Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/verdict-reserved-in-imran-khans-nomination-case-for-na-89.html\"><em><strong>Verdict Reserved in Imran Khan&amp;#8217;s Nomination Case for NA-89<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the PTI founder attended the court proceedings via video link because Adiala jail authorities were unable to produce him in court due to security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing of the cases, RA Bazar Police Station officials sought physical remand of the PTI founder in the May 9 cases, but ATC Judge Malik Aijaz Asif denied the request.<\/p>\n<p>The ATC judge ordered police to question the PTI founder at Adiala prison.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes just days after PTI senior leader Shah Mahood Qureshi was arrested in the May 9 cases after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the cipher case.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/imran-khan-will-virtually-address-the-public-next-week.html\">Imran Khan will virtually address the public next week<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Rawalpindi local court remanded Qureshi to Adiala jail for 14 days in connection with May 9 cases, including the attack on GHQ on December 28, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Qureshi was initially arrested from Adiala Jail in connection with a GHQ attack, but 12 other cases related to violent May 9 protests were later filed against him.<\/p>\n<p>In May last year, Khan&#8217;s alleged supporters and workers attacked and ransacked military installations, including GHQ, in protest of the party chief&#8217;s arrest in a graft case.<\/p>\n<p>Following the May 9 mayhem, dozens of PTI leaders and workers were arrested, and several leaders broke ranks with Khan over the riots, which they blamed on the former premier&#8217;s confrontational politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATC judge rejects police plea for physical remand of PTI founder. RAWALPINDI: Imran Khan, the incarcerated former prime minister and founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the GHQ attack that caused the May 9 mayhem. An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Rawalpindi summoned the PTI founder, who is already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[9723,10620,8343],"class_list":["post-22391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-9-may","tag-ghq-attack-case","tag-imran-khan-dr-arif-alvi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}