Rawalpindi (HRNW) Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, the chief of Awami Muslim League (AML) and an ally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was arrested by the Islamabad police on Thursday from his residence in Rawalpindi.
On Thursday afternoon, he was presented before a judicial magistrate where police sought physical custody for Rashid.
Rashid was charged with leveling false allegations that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-Chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari was plotting to assassinate PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
The case was registered under non-bailable provisions.
Before the court hearing, Islamabad police took him to Polyclinic Hospital where he underwent a medical exam.
The case was filed against Sheikh Rashid by PPP Rawalpindi Division’s President Raja Inayat ur Rehman at Islamabad’s Aabpara Police Station for leveling baseless allegations against the former president.
In the FIR, the PPP divisional president stated that the AML chief tried to badmouth a former president and cause a “permanent danger” to the PPP co-chairman and his family.