Pakistan: FIR Registered Against Imran Khan & Other PTI Leaders Under Blasphemy Charges

The former prime minister’s ex-assistant Shahbaz Gill, close friend Aneel Mussarat and Barrister Amir Ilyas have also been named in the FIR.

PTI chief Imran Khan (File Photo: AFP)

New Delhi: An FIR has been registered against former prime minister Imran Khan, former interior minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, former information minister Fawad Chaudhry and other members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on charges of blasphemy.

They have been accused of committing blasphemy by planning and sending the PTI members to Saudi Arabia and having them hurl abuses, chant slogans and assault the government representatives while being inside the Holy mosque in Madina of Masjid-e-Nabwi, as per the FIR registered in Faisalabad, Punjab.

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The former prime minister’s ex-assistant Shahbaz Gill, close friend Aneel Mussarat and Barrister Amir Ilyas have also been named in the FIR.

Moreover, there are reports suggesting that Qasim Suri, the former deputy speaker of National Assembly, should also be named in the FIR.

The FIR claims that slogans and accusations against the government representatives in the courtyard of Masjid-e-Nabwi have hurt sentiments of the Muslims.

The FIR also claims that a group of 150 people were intentionally sent to Saudi Arabia with the motive to raise slogans and hoot against them.

The lawsuit, which has been actively registered, is in accordance with clauses 295, 296 and 109 of Pakistan law regulations.