PESHAWAR: The Interior ministry has registered FIR against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf activists for attack on Sindh house however they were released on personal bail by the area magistrate.
The PTI workers, along with two national assembly members, were charged with interfering in government affairs, damaging government property and violation of section-144. They had stormed Sindh House on 18 March and broke the doors and vandalized government properties.
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Islamabad police had arrested 13 PTI workers and shifted them to police station but Special Assistant to Prime Minister Shahbaz Gill reached the police station and released the workers including MNAs. However, Gill has denied the reports on Twitter, saying that he has not rescued the workers from the police station. He claimed that the workers will be released “according to the law”.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto had termed the attack on Sindh House in Islamabad as an ‘attack on Sindh’. In a statement issued on Twitter account, Bilawal said that the attack on Sindh House was an “act of terrorism’. Bhutto alleged that a well-planned attack on Sindh House was tantamount to an attack on Sindh. He questioned how the attackers reached Sindh House in the red zone after crossing dozens of police posts.
Former President Asif Ali Zardari also alleged that if Imran Khan had the required numbers for no-confidence motion, he will have shown his power in the House instead of attacking Parliament Lodges and Sindh House.
Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed had ordered Islamabad police to arrest the attackers on Sindh House. The PTI workers broke the gate of Sindh House around 6 pm on Friday. Federal Home Minister Shekh Rashid Ahmad strongly condemned Sindh house attack.