ISLAMABAD: The capital police conducted raids in different areas of Karachi to arrest six employees of the news channel but failed to arrest anyone.
According to the local English newspaper, the police conducted raids in various areas of Karachi, including the South Zone, but all operations proved unsuccessful.
Sources said that most of the houses raided by the police had been lying vacant for a long time while some of them were deserted at that time.
After the failed raids, the capital police team left from Karachi to Islamabad. Sources said that these raids were carried out on the instructions of the concerned authorities, while authorities believe that Shahbaz Gill was not alone in the ‘conspiracy’.
Other PTI leaders and some staff members of the news channel have been identified as involved in the ‘conspiracy’, sources said.
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Meanwhile, it has also been decided to merge the case filed against the staff of the private news channel in Karachi’s Memongoth police station with Islamabad’s Kohsar police station.
According to the officers, the Sindh government is being requested to refer the case registered in Memongoth police station to Kohsar police station in Islamabad.
In another development, the capital police contacted the FIA cyber crime wing to file a case against Shehbaz Gill for appearing in a controversial news bulletin of a news channel, officials said.
Apart from this, the police also requested the FIA to register cases against those social media users who shared the controversial news bulletin from their accounts and also requested to register cases against those who criticized Shahbaz Gill.
