ISLAMABAD
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Islamabad on Saturday accepted the interim bail application of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi till June 27 in three different violence cases.
A private television reported the ATC accepted Qureshi’s bail applications against surety bonds worth Rs100,000 each wherein issuing restraining order to Police from apprehending Qureshi till June 27. The PTI Vice Chairman and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was released from Adiala Jail Rawalpindi on June 6. Addressing media outside Adiala Jail Shah Mehmood Qureshi had said that the ‘flag of justice’ is in his hands and he would meet the PTI chief tomorrow and discuss the current political situation of the country with him.
He said that the party is facing hardships “But don’t lose hope as the sun of justice will rise again”. Former foreign minister Qureshi was taken into custody by police in Islamabad following May 9 protests.
Earlier, on June 6, a single-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench ordered the immediate release of Qureshi. Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz heard the case and declared the detention of PTI Vice Chairperson Shah Mahmood Qureshi as ‘illegal’. The court has ordered Qureshi to submit an affidavit to the Rawalpindi deputy commissioner within three days of his release.
It is pertinent to mention that Shah Mehmood was arrested from Gilgit Baltistan House in Islamabad, soon after the riots erupted across Pakistan following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case. The PTI leader was re-arrested on May 23 moments after he was released from Adiala Jail. Shah Mahmood was released from Adiala jail on court orders but was taken into custody right after his release.
