Former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed was arrested on Sunday from a house in a housing society in Rawalpindi. He was arrested along with two persons, including his nephew.
The AML chief was shifted to an unknown location for investigation. Some officials claimed that Sheikh Rasheed was arrested from Lal Haveli, but this could not be confirmed.
Sources said large contingents of police and other law enforcement agencies surrounded the house where the AML chief was hiding.
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His counsel Sardar Abdur Razak confirmed the arrest by plain-clothed personnel.
Reacting to the arrest in a media post, a PTI spokesman said, “The ongoing political victimisation and authoritarianism persist with the arrest of Sheikh Rasheed.”
No case was registered against the AML chief in the limits of Punjab, his counsel said, adding that Rasheed was nominated in a case lodged by the Kohsar police station in connection with a protest rally held on May 10 by the PTI against the detention of Imran Khan. “We do not know the whereabouts of Rasheed so far. Efforts are being made to trace him,” his lawyer said.
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A statement shared on Rasheed’s Twitter account confirmed that he was arrested along with his brother Sheikh Shakir and a domestic help after the Maghrib prayers. The statement also said that in their written statements in Lahore and Islamabad high courts, the police had already admitted that Sheikh Rasheed was not wanted by them in any case.