The incumbent government approached a Karachi court on Friday against the Sindh police’s earlier recommendation of declaring the first information report in the charge sheet against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Capt (r) Safdar Awan as fake. This move from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf comes after the FIR that had been registered against Safdar for violating the sanctity of the Quaid’s mausoleum had been declared fake by the Karachi police on Monday. According to the FIR lodged by Waqas Khan, Safdar Awan, his wife and cohorts violated the sanctity of the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by creating a ruckus inside and chanting fiery slogans. Earlier, district public prosecutor Zainab Hamirani and deputy public prosecutor Arif Sitai, in the scrutiny note, had said that there was insufficient evidence for the establishment of offences. The military on Tuesday had said that the officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence and Sindh Rangers involved in the noisy arrest and subsequent release of Safdar Awan had been suspended for acting “overzealously”.

Source: Pakistan Today November 13, 2020 16:18 UTC