Remand of PTI women
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore denied the Sarwar Road police’s request for further physical remand of PTI women.
PTI women included fashion designer Khadija Shah, Sanam Javed, Tayyaba Ambreen, former MNA Alia Hamza, and 77 other suspects in the corps commander house attack case.
The investigating officer presented the suspects before the court and requested an extension of their physical remand for further investigation.
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore today rejected further physical remand of PTI women.
However, the defense lawyers opposed the request. PTI lawyers said that nothing had been recovered from the custody of the suspects. They also said that the police lacked a valid reason to seek an extension.
Judge Ejaz Ahmad Buttar rejected the police’s request and ordered that the suspects be sent to jail on judicial remand. Additionally, ATC Judge Abher Gul Khan also denied Shadman police’s request for further remand of former senior provincial minister Mian Mahmoodur Rashid in the police station burning case and sent him to jail on judicial remand.
The police had obtained fresh remand for the suspects by adding new offenses under sections 121, 131, and 146 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in the FIRs related to the May 9 cases. Furthermore, additional charges under sections 120, 120-A, 120B, 121-A, 505, 153, 153-A, 153-B, and 107 of the PPC had also been included in the cases, which encompassed the attacks on Askari Tower, Shadman police station, and the torching of party offices of PML-N in Model Town.
Pakistan and Iran decide to promote bilateral cooperation
Meanwhile,
Pakistan and Iran agreed to expand their bilateral cooperation in various fields, including economic, commercial, cultural, tourism, and public relations.
Caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi and Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghaddam in Islamabad decided this in a meeting on Tuesday.
They addressed mutual interests, fraternal relations between the two countries, and the promotion of cooperation in the field of media.
Caretaker Information Minister emphasized the need to further expand economic relations between Pakistan and Iran. He stressed Pakistan’s high regard for its brotherly relations with Iran.
Murtaza Solangi highlighted the deep religious, cultural, and linguistic ties that bind Islamabad and Tehran. He also expressed the urgency of collaboration between Pakistan and Iran in the media sector, particularly in film and drama.
Furthermore, Murtaza Solangi informed the Ambassador about the steps taken for the upcoming general elections in Pakistan, emphasizing the government’s primary responsibility to ensure peaceful polls.
The Ambassador acknowledged the high esteem in which Iranians hold the great poet of the subcontinent, Allama Iqbal.
