ISLAMABAD: A case has been registered against Awami Muslim League President Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed in Karachi for making "Immoral" remarks against Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.

According to reports, case was registered at Mochko Police Station by PPP worker over former Minister's comments against PPP Chairman. Sources said police team has been formed and will leave today to arrest AML leader, adding that he would be brought to Karachi after arrest. Sheikh Rasheed was earlier arrested by Islamabad Police in late-night raid on his residence in private housing society for publically accusing former President Asif Ali Zardari of hatching plot to assassinate PTI Chairman Imran Khan.

Another case was also registered against him at the Murree police station under Section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public function) and 506(ii) (criminal intimidation) of the PPC for manhandling a police official at the time of the arrest.

However, it emerged on Friday that yet another case was lodged against Rashid by Karachi’s Mochko police on the complaint of a local PPP leader. The FIR was registered under Sections 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot), 500 (punishment for defamation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the PPC.

In the FIR, complainant Khuda Bux — a senior vice president of the PPP and a resident of Soomar Goth — said that he was at his party’s office on Suparco Road in Mowach Goth on Feb 2 at around 4:30pm, when he saw Rashid on social media using “extremely filthy and immoral language” against Bilawal while talking to the media outside Islamabad’s Polyclinic Hospital.

The complainant alleged that Rashid’s remarks had “provoked thousands of workers of the PPP and a large number of people came on to the road” who were then brought under control by him and other local party leaders with “great difficulty”.

Islamabad court remanded him into two-day police custody following his late-night arrest. Rashid was arrested by the Abpara police after a case was registered against him under sections 120B, 153 A, and 505 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Raja Inayat, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Rawalpindi Division vice president.

Police said the former interior minister was booked for criminal conspiracy, creating rift among two groups and giving hateful statements. After the arrest Rashid was brought to the Abpara police station in Islamabad, from where he was taken to the Polyclinic Hospital for medical check-up.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 04 2023

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