{"id":21195,"date":"2023-11-04T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/fawad-chaudhry-arrested-taken-to-unknown-place-wife-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:08:06","slug":"fawad-chaudhry-arrested-taken-to-unknown-place-wife-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/fawad-chaudhry-arrested-taken-to-unknown-place-wife-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawad Chaudhry arrested, taken to unknown place: wife | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in Islamabad on Saturday, confirmed the former PTI leader’s wife.<\/p>\n

Hiba Chaudhry took to X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon to announce that her husband was arrested, adding that his whereabouts were “unknown”.<\/p>\n

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Fawad Arrested and taken to unknown place.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Hiba Fawad Chaudhary (@HibaFawadPk) November 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

As per another post of a private tv channel on X, Fawad’s brother, Faisal Chaudhry, had also confirmed the news.<\/p>\n

Hearing a plea filed against the former information minister’s\u00a0arrest and seeking his recovery, magistrate of the Kohsar police station, Ahmed Shehzad Gondal,\u00a0directed the police to submit a report regarding the matter.<\/p>\n

Read<\/strong> Court suspends ECP\u2019s warrant against Fawad<\/a><\/p>\n

This is the second time in this year that the former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader has been arrested. Chaudhry’s arrest also comes a day after another senior PTI leader, Asad Qaiser, was arrested from his residence.<\/p>\n

In September this year, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had dismissed the former information minister’s petition to nullify the contempt case against him by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).<\/p>\n

Fawad had challenged the ECP\u2019s action against him on two forums. He had also issued a verbal apology to the ECP in July when a four-member commission headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja was presiding over the contempt proceedings.<\/p>\n

Following the May 9 riots, the senior politician parted ways with the PTI and its chairman Imran Khan.<\/p>\n

“[With] ref[erence] to my earlier statement where I unequivocally condemned 9th May incidents, I have decided to take a break from politics, therefore, I have resigned from party position and parting ways from Imran Khan,” he wrote on his official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n