ISLAMABAD: The head of Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has filed filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday, seeking to stop his possible transfer to Karachi and Murree Police.
Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was booked on charges of provocation to cause riots and criminal intimidation for passing ‘extremely filthy’ and foul remarks against PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
According to the FIR, registered by Karachi’s Moachko police, PPP’s senior vice president at PS-112 and Soomar Goth resident Khuda Bux alleged that Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed hatched a conspiracy to create a law and order situation and trigger violence and bloodshed by using ‘extremely filthy and immoral language’ against Mr Bhutto-Zardari during his interaction with the media at the Polyclinic Hospital in the capital.
In the petition filed today, Sheikh Rashid argued that he had quoted PTI chief Imran Khan’s statement accusing PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari of plotting to assassinate him. “The petitioner in cases filed against me is not the affected party,” he added.
Sheikh Rashid, who made IGPs of Islamabad, Sindh, Punjab, and interior secretary as respondents, also urged the court to stop the authorities for handing over to Karachi until the cases is decided here.
The AML leader prayed the court to order a halt to registration of cases against him based on political blame game. He also urged the court to quash cases lodged against him at Aabpara Police Station in Islamabad, Murree and Karachi.
Sheikh Rashid also urged the court to order shifting of the case in Karachi to Islamabad or declare it “misuse of power”.
