When the furor and euphoria about Imran Khan showed no signs of abating,, the ECP boss convened an urgent meeting to discuss the day’s key agenda, succinctly titled ‘Saving Private PML-N’.
These facts raise a number of uncomfortable questions about how free and fair democratic elections and widespread illegality can comfortably coexist. In Pakistan’s boisterous democracy, the debate over the role of crime in politics is raging ahead—although our understanding of the underlying drivers is still inchoate.
In response to the interim Punjab government’s failure to produce Fawad Chaudhry, senior vice president of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), who the party claimed was picked up from outside his residence in the wee hours of Wednesday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) summoned the police chiefs of the provincial capital and Islamabad. The decision was made when Chaudhry Jawad Yaqoob, the advocate general for Punjab, informed the high court that Chaudhry was in the custody of the Islamabad police after being unlawfully detained by men riding in four Hilux pickup vehicles without licence plates, according to his brother. The kidnappers did not notify their family when they arrived at 5:30 am, according to Chaudhry’s brother Faisal Chaudhry.
The decision was made when Chaudhry Jawad Yaqoob, the advocate general for Punjab, informed the high court that Chaudhry was in the custody of the Islamabad police after being unlawfully detained by men riding in four Hilux pickup vehicles without licence plates, according to his brother. The kidnappers did not inform Chaudhry’s family of the charges or the location of the arrestee, according to Chaudhry’s brother Faisal Chaudhry, who stated they came around 5:30 am.
A few hours later, according to the opposition party, Faisal was detained in Jhelum. After a first information report (FIR) was filed against the former minister at the Kohsar police station in Islamabad on the complaint of Umar Hameed, the secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the former minister was arrested. Sections are cited in the FIR.
He stressed that the accusations of contempt levelled against the ECP were an effort to stifle dissent and urged Pakistanis to support the party.
