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  • Quetta judicial magistrate issues arrest warrants for Imran

    PTI Chairman Imran Khan File photo PTI Chairman Imran Khan

    A Quetta judicial magistrate on Thursday issued bailable arrest warrants for PTI Chairman Imran Khan in a case related to alleged remarks against state institutions and their offices, and spreading hatred against them.

    The warrant dated March 9, instructed the police to arrest Imran and present him before the court.

    On March 6, a first information report (FIR) was registered against the former prime minister at the Bijli Road police station in Quetta by citizen Abdul Khalil Kakar.

    In the FIR, Kakar said that Imran addressed the public from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore on March 5, in which he levelled “baseless allegations against the state institutions”.

    He alleged that the ex-premier’s statement was tantamount to “destroying public peace and order”. Imran has harmed the credibility of the institutions, the complainant claimed.

    The complaint invoked sections 124-A (sedition), 153-A (giving provocation with intent to cause a riot if rioting is committed; if not committed) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

    It also included Section 20 (Offences against the dignity of a natural person) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016.