Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was arrested after a Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court rejected his bail in a case pertaining to violence in the country on May 9.
Lawyer Sardar Abdul Razzak Khan confirmed the arrest to Dawn.com. “He will be held at the New Town Police Station overnight,” the lawyer added.
The counsel also said Rashid had acquired bail in 12 out of 13 cases. He added that a bail plea in the fresh case would be filed tomorrow.
The AML leader was arrested in September last year by the Punjab police and was moved to “undisclosed location”.
His arrest had come amid the state’s crackdown on the PTI and its supporters following incidents of vandalism on May 9 — when party chairman Imran Khan was first arrested from the premises of the Islamabad High Court.
Rashid had re-surfaced in a TV interview nearly after 34 days after his disappearance and condemned the May 9. Regarding his “arrest”, Rashid had said he was on “a chilla [with] a tableeghi jamaat (proselytisers)”.
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