KP CM Gandapur granted pre-arrest bail

ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday granted pre-arrest bail to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Ali Amin Gandapur until April 17.

Duty Judge Raja Jawad heard the petition on Friday and granted CM KP pre-arrest bail till April 17 in lieu of a surety bond of Rs50,000. 

The bail plea stated that Gandapur   was implicated in a false case only to malign him, and that the text of the FIR was concocted and a lie and hewas not at the spot of the incident but still his name was included in the FIR.

On March 19, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) issued arrest warrants for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM) Ali Amin Gandapur in a case pertaining to May 9 events, wherein military installations came under attack.

ATC Jude Malik Ejaz Asif issued the non-bailable arrest warrants for the newly-elected chief minister and ordered the police to present him before court on April 2.

The arrest warrants against Ali Amin Gandapur were issued in a case registered at City Police Station.

GANDAPUR MEDIA TALK

Later talking to the media outside the Judicial Complex, Gandapur said that US Assistant Secretary of State Donald Lu had lied before the Congress committee

He said that even then Pakistan’s ambassador to the USA Asad Majeed had confirmed that the US cipher did exist. “Whether it was a conspiracy or an interference; being a patriotic Pakistani it is not acceptable to us,” he said categorically.

Truth of the matter was, Gandapur went on to say, that the former prime minister and ex-PTI chairman Imran Khan was handed down prison term in the cipher case. “If the cipher did not exist, then why he was given punishment,” he asked.

Enumerating the achievements of his government in KP in a short time, the chief minister said that his government had relaunched Sehat Card in the province. “The Center has to give us our money, which is our right.”

Refusing to accept the present government as legitimate, Gandapur said it had been formed by stealing the people’s mandate from the PTI. “It is unconstitutional,” he said and wondered how the government which had no legitimacy could deliver.

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