Islamabad (Staff Report/Agencies): Islamabad police in the early hours of Thursday arrested Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief and PTI Chief Imran Khan ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in connection with remarks he allegedly made against former president Asif Ali Zardari.
Rashid was arrested on a complaint filed by Raja Inayat-ur-Rehman, a vice president of PPP Rawalpindi Division, wherein he said that the AML chief, in a television interview on Jan 27, alleged that PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari got the assistance of some terrorist to kill Imran Khan.
Three sections — 120B (criminal conspiracy), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) — have been added to the FIR.
Imran Khan in a television address on Jan 27 had alleged that Zardari was behind a fresh assassination plot — a “plan C” — and a terror group had been engaged for the purpose. He offered no evidence to back up his accusation.