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An Islamabad sessions court on Saturday granted the police a two-day physical remand of PTI leader Shehryar Afridi over a case pertaining to the May 9 riots.
According to Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance, 1960, which gives the government the right to detain anyone, Afridi was taken into custody on May 16 from his apartment in Islamabad. Afridi was detained again on May 30 under the same MPO law shortly after being let out of a Rawalpindi prison, and a city police officer accused him of “instigating/planning to organise unlawful assembly/commit violence, deliver unlawful speeches to cause damage to human life and public/private properties.”
Despite the Islamabad High Court (IHC) overruling his detention orders on June 6, Afridi was being kept in a death cell at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, following which the IHC warned the capital police officials of contempt proceedings.
Judge Naveed Khan presided over the hearing today while Advocate Sher Afzal Marwat appeared as Afridi’s counsel.
“اللہ سے ہونے کا یقین جن کو ہوتا ہے اللہ انکو سرخرو کرتا ہے، اللہ میری دھرتی ماں کو قائم رکھے، اللہ آپکو آزماتا ہے، جب آپ حق و سچ پر ہوں رب آپکے لئے کافی ہوتا ہے” ۔ شہریار آفریدی کی عدالت پیشی کے موقع پر گفتگوpic.twitter.com/y7dsdragzT
— PTI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (@PTIKPOfficial) June 17, 2023
On the matter of numerous party leaders leaving the PTI, Afridi said, “Will not say anything about those who left the party and went. Only God knows the circumstances under which they left the party and the reasons behind it.
“Those who believe in Allah would never give during testing times,” he vowed while speaking to media.
