{"id":56161,"date":"2024-11-15T11:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56161"},"modified":"2024-11-15T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T06:48:18","slug":"sheikh-rashid-acquitted-in-asif-ali-zardari-accusation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sheikh-rashid-acquitted-in-asif-ali-zardari-accusation-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheikh Rashid acquitted in Asif Ali Zardari accusation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/574460-sheikh-rashid-acquitted-in-president-asif-zardari-remarks-case\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: A District and Sessions Court in Islamabad Friday acquitted Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in a case regarding making defamatory remarks against President Asif Ali Zardari.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial Magistrate Yasir Mahmood announced the reserved verdict on Rashid&#8217;s acquittal plea. Sheikh Rashid appeared before the court along with his lawyers Masroof Khan and Sardar Shehbaz Raza.<\/p>\n<p>The case was filed against the former interior minister in 2023 at Islamabad&#8217;s Aabpara Police Station for putting an allegation on Asif Zardari of plotting to assassinate former prime minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid was booked under three sections \u2014 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief).<\/p>\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_75  vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_82  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span8\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_85 td-pb-border-top single-content td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_85\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>In the FIR, Zardari stated that the AML chief tried to badmouth a former president and cause a permanent danger to the PPP co-chairman and his family. With his provocatory allegations, Rasheed wants to cause a fight between the PTI and the PPP to disrupt the country\u2019s peace, the FIR added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, the firebrand politician said &#8220;With Allah\u2019s help, I have been acquitted today, though 14 terrorism cases remain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/574460-sheikh-rashid-acquitted-in-president-asif-zardari-remarks-case\">\n<p>The former federal minister further remarked that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have become symbols of public disdain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A District and Sessions Court in Islamabad Friday acquitted Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in a case regarding making defamatory remarks against President Asif Ali Zardari. Judicial Magistrate Yasir Mahmood announced the reserved verdict on Rashid&#8217;s acquittal plea. Sheikh Rashid appeared before the court along with his lawyers Masroof Khan and Sardar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[621,1031],"class_list":["post-56161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-asif-ali-zardari","tag-sheikh-rashid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56162,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56161\/revisions\/56162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}