The federal government approached a Karachi court on Friday against the Sindh police’s earlier recommendation of declaring the first information report (FIR) in the charge sheet against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Captain (r) Safdar Awan as “fake”. This move from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) 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. An investigation by the police revealed that the complainant, Waqas Khan, the nephew of PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh, was not in the vicinity of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s mausoleum at the time of the supposed incident. According to the FIR lodged by Waqas Khan, Safdar Awan, his wife and cohorts violated the sanctity of the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah by creating a ruckus inside and chanting fiery slogans. The military on Tuesday had said that the officials of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) 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