By Our Staff Reporter
Lahore: Police in Pakistan registered a case against two former Prime Ministers, two Lieutenant Generals, a sitting Prime Minister and several senior politicians for allegedly conspiring against country and state institutions.
As per detail, Punjab police booked heavy weights including three time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and a sitting Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for ‘conspiring’ against the country and state institutions.
The case was registered on complaint of a citizen namely Badar Rasheed, under Section 10 (cyberterrorism) of the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (2016), and sections 120-A (definition of criminal conspiracy), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121-A (conspiracy to wage war against Pakistan), 123-A (condemning the creation of the country and advocating the abolishment of its sovereignty), 124-A (sedition) and 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Soon after the complaint was lodged with Shahdara police station, police registered FIR with consent of Inspector General of Punjab police. Apart from Nawaz Sharif, other politicians including Maryam Nawaz, Rana Sanaullah, Ahsan Iqbal, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Pervez Rashid, Marriyum Aurangzeb and Ataullah Tarar were nominated in the same FIR.
The complainant states that Nawaz has several corruption cases against him that are currently under trial in the courts. “Instead of availing medical treatment in London, Nawaz is carrying out a planned conspiracy to defame the country and its institutions by making inflammatory speeches,” says the FIR, a copy of which is available with “Islamabad Telegraph”
It alleges that in the speeches made on September 20 and October 1, the former premier supported the policies of neighbouring India, so that Pakistan would continue to remain on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) ‘grey list’.
“The main purpose of Nawaz’s speeches is to isolate Pakistan in front of the international community and to declare it a rogue state,” the complaint says. It adds that Nawaz is trying to turn the people against the democratically elected government.
The aim of the speeches is also to divert attention from human rights violations in occupied Kashmir to benefit Nawaz’s “friend” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the complainant says.
Meanwhile, the Islamabad High Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a ban on Nawaz’s speeches. The court, in its verdict, said: “The tendency of invoking the constitutional jurisdiction of a High Court in matters involving political content is certainly not in public interest and that too when the law provides for alternate remedies.”
The petition stated that Nawaz has started actively participating in politics and has initiated a smear campaign against state institutions, after going abroad on the pretext of availing medical treatment.
Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan, Prime Minister of State of Azad Jammu And kashmir, strongly reacted after his name appered in the FIR.
” Indian PM NarendraModi must b feeling elated coz almost entire Pakistan has become his “agent”-thanks to the small-minded bigots who’ve least realisation of the repercussions of their parish-pump & hate-filled politics. As an anti-India Kashmiri, I’m worried about my future now,” Farooq tweeted on Monday.
In a statement posted on Twitter, PML-N spokeswoman Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the registration of the case was proof of the fact that the “selected” government was “panicking”.
“Voices fighting for the truth and for the rights [of the people] can’t be suppressed by such false and baseless cases.” She added that political opponents, the media, and those fighting for human rights and democracy were now being labelled as “traitors”.
Police in Pakistan books former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for conspiring against state
