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An anti-terrorism court has ordered the immediate release of all the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s members of the National Assembly arrested from the Parliament House in the wake of the party’s September 8 political show in Islamabad. ATC Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain heard the bail pleas and granted post-arrest bail to the PTI MNAs who were taken into custody by the Islamabad police with their cases registered at the Sangjani police station. The bails were granted against surety bonds worth Rs30,000 each.
During the hearing of the case, the prosecutor, Raja Naveed, told the court that Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) MNA Muhammad Ahmed Chattha is also nominated in the case. He requested the court against approving bails as the minimum sentence for provisions imposed in the case is three years. “Has anything been recovered from Sher Afzal Marwat, Ahmed Chattha and other MNAs?” the judge questioned the prosecutor.
He responded to the question in the negative. The police, on September 8 and 9, arrested PTI lawmakers in the wake of the party’s political gathering in the federal capital. The leaders included Marwat, Sheikh Waqas Akram, Zain Qureshi, Chattha, Malik Aamir Dogar, Yousaf Khan, Naeem Ali Shah.
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