Another case filed against Sheikh Rashid

ISLAMABAD: Another case was filed against Awami Muslim League President Sheikh Rashid Ahmed for using objectionable language against Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in Karachi on Saturday.

As many as three cases have been filed against Sheikh Rashid — for murder plot allegations against former president Asif Ali Zardari, threatening police personnel and passing “offensive” and “filthy” comments against Bilawal — in Murree, Islamabad and Karachi.

Sheikh Rashid, a former interior minister, is currently in police custody since his arrest from Murree Motorway on February 2 in the first case. He is a close aide of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan.

According to media reports, Sheikh Rashid had filed a plea seeking restraining orders against registration of further cases against him “on the basis of his political statements”, earlier in the day.

In the plea filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), Sheikh Rashid sought restraining orders against his transfer from the federal capital to Karachi.

“The respondents be restrained from shifting the petitioner from Islamabad to Karachi till the final disposal of the instant constitutional petition,” the plea stated.

The petitioner also requested the court to quash the case registered at Aabpara Police Station in Islamabad after declaring it as “illegal, unlawful and without lawful authority”, and restrict the respondents from lodging more cases against him.

Moreover, the FIRs registered at Murree and Karachi should “be declared as illegal, unlawful, result of abuse of powers and misuse of authority or in the alternate”.

The petition also requested the court that the case registered in Karachi “be ordered to be shifted to Islamabad in accordance with section 234, 235 and 239 of Cr.P.C where the case was already registered”.