Sheikh Rashid, Chairman of the Awami Muslim League, has been arrested on Murree Motorway for hurling allegations at former president Asif Ali Zardari for hatching a plot to assassinate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.
According to the police, the former federal minister was arrested on the motorway and taken to his residence where the police searched.
The police claim that a bottle of liquor and a weapon were recovered from Sheikh Rashid’s residence in a private housing society in Islamabad and the former railway minister was intoxicated when arrested.
A case was filed against the ex-interior minister in the Aabpara police station Islamabad on PPP’s Rawalpindi Division President Raja Inayat ur-Rehman’s application.
Post his arrest, Chairman AML stated that at least 100 to 200 armed people barged into his residence with the help of ladders, broke the doors and windows of his house, tore papers, thrashed his children, and searched his residence.
The police then forcibly hustled him into their vehicle and arrested him, despite the bail granted by Mian Tahir’s court.
The former interior minister blamed the incumbent interior minister, Rana Sanaullah, saying, “Rana Sanaullah is behind all this.” The truth will prevail at the end of the day, and I stand by Imran Khan, Rashid added.