Karachi: PTI Senator Azam Swati was handed over to Sindh Police in Quetta, his lawyer said, hours after Balochistan High Court (BHC) directed police to quash all five first information reports registered against him in province over his controversial tweets against top military officials and release him if he was not booked in any other cases. Swati’s lawyer Advocate Iqbal Shah confirmed development. Sindh and Balochistan police did not respond with comment when approached. 

PTI leaders lashed out at news with party’s provincial president Qasim Suri saying party was in process of quashing remaining FIRs against Swati after BHC order when Sindh police “abducted him in their special plane and took him to an unknown location”.

PTI Vice President Fawad Chaudhry also claimed that Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah’s plane went to Quetta to collect Swati and Senator was arrested on same charges high court had quashed. Chaudhry claimed Swati was brought to Larkana and then moved to Qambar Shahdadkot. “These are human rights of senior politician and Senator of Pakistan.” PTI Secretary General Asad Umar said, “Law is being buried every day.”

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 10 2022

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