Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Asad Qaiser re-arrested in one other case

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Up to date: Nov 24, 2023 04:21 IST

Islamabad [Pakistan], November 24 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Asad Qaiser has been re-arrested in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ARY Information reported on Thursday.
As per particulars, police have arrested former Speaker of Nationwide Meeting Asad Qaiser in a vandalism case and took him to Charsadda police station in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa beneath strict safety measures.
Hours earlier than being re-arrested, the anti-corruption courtroom in Abbottabad on Thursday granted bail to PTI chief Qaiser in a corruption case.
PTI condemned his arrest and expressed issues relating to the transparency of the elections, that are as a result of be held on February 8, 2024.
PTI spokesperson stated, “Asad Qaiser‘s arrest is a query mark on the function of the election fee in staging honest polls. The sequence of leaders’ arrests is a conspiracy to maintain PTI out of the election race.”

Qaiser, who’s suspected of corruption within the acquisition of apparatus for Gajju Khan Medical School (GKMC), was apprehended on November 3 in Bani Gala, Islamabad.
In keeping with the FIR, Asad and 4 well being division employees precipitated a lack of hundreds of thousands of rupees to the exchequer through corruption within the acquisition of apparatus for the GKMC throughout the earlier PTI authorities, ARY Information reported.
The previous NA speaker was elected twice, as soon as from a Nationwide Meeting seat and as soon as from a provincial meeting citizens.
Following the 2013 normal elections, he was elected speaker of the provincial meeting, and his success within the 2018 elections elevated him to the place of NA speaker.
The arrest is one more blow for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is already mired in courtroom fights since its senior management is imprisoned.
Notably, PTI’s high management, together with its chairman Imran Khan and vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, continued to stay in jail in the identical facility for his or her jail trial within the cypher case, Geo Information reported. (ANI)