After SC intervention, Wazirabad FIR finally registered

Case filed with Wazirabad police station n PTI rejects FIR saying it will accept only if it carries names of those demanded by Imran Khan

LAHORE    -   After a gap of four days, the Punjab police on Monday registered a case (First Information Report) of the gun attack on former prime minis­ter and PTI chief Imran Khan in Wazirabad city.

The case was filed hours after the Supreme Court of Pakistan direct­ed the Punjab Inspector General of Police Fais­al Shahkar to register an FIR against the at­tack on PTI chief Im­ran in accordance with the law and a submit report within 24 hours During a hearing on the contempt of court case against Khan yesterday, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandi­al, had warned that the top court would take suo motu notice if the FIR was not registered.

The CJP, addressing its several leaders on social media site Twitter, the par­ty primarily said that any FIR registered which does not include the three names taken by party chief Im­ran Khan is not acceptable. Senior PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said that his par­ty would not accept the FIR which doesn’t mention the names demanded by Imran Khan. “PTI had made its po­sition clear that it will not accept any FIR if it does not include the names of She­hbaz Sharif, Rana Sanaul­lah, and the military offi­cer,” Fawad said in a tweet. PTI chief Imran Khan was injured during a gun attack while leading the party’s long march in Wazirabad on November 3. A PTI support­er, Muazzam Nawaz, was killed in the incident while 14 others, including Imran, were wounded.

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