Khan's arrest comes a day after the powerful army had accused the former prime minister of levelling baseless allegations against a senior officer of the spy agency ISI. TV footage showed the Rangers grabbing Khan from the collar and bundling him into a prison van.
Khan has been implicated in over one hundred cases since his ouster from power in April last year. He was removed as PM after losing a no-confidence vote, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy targeting him because of his independent foreign policy decisions on Russia, China, and Afghanistan.
The police, in the month of March, had reached Khan residence in Lahore to arrest him. Although, later, the police said that Khan was “unavailable” for being arrested, the 70-year-old politician addressed his supporters and party workers. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief said he had never “bowed before any man or institution, and will never let you do so as well”.
On February 28, the former Prime Minister was supposed to be indicted in the Toshakhana case but his lawyers requested to exempt him from appearing as he had to go to several other courts. The judge, however, rejected the plea and issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Imran. The 70-year-old politician’s indictment was deferred twice before, Dawn reported.
What is the Toshakhana case? What did the ECP say about the case? Read our explainer here.
After the CJP passed the order, Imran said that no harm should be brought to the country and asked his supporters to remain peaceful.
“We only want elections in the country,” he maintained. (Dawn reports)
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PTI leader Babar says said that former prime minister Imran Khan is now in the Supreme Court’s custody.
The Supreme Court has told the PTI chairman to appear before the Islamabad High Court on Friday, he said. (Dawn reports)
1. "How an individual could be arrested from the court premises?"
2. "No one could be arrested from the court without the permission of the court's registrar."
3. "By entering the premises of a court means surrendering to the court and how a person could be arrested after surrender."
4. "What dignity remains of the court if 90 people entered its premises? How can any individual be arrested from court premises?".
5. National Accountability Bureau had committed “contempt of court”.
(Source: PTI newsagency)
Over violent protest, the PTI head said he had no idea of what happened after his arrest.
The court asked Khan to condemn violent protests. (Reuters)
During the hearing, Khan told the SC that he was kidnapped from the Islamabad High Court and was hit by sticks, Reuters reported quoting ARY news. Over violent protest, the PTI head said he had no idea of what happened after his arrest.
The court also asked Khan to condemn violent protests. (Reuters)
While hearing the plea against former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case, a three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, ordered the immediate release of Khan from custody. (Dawn reported)
Pakistan Supreme Court on Thursday called former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest illegal, Reuters reported.
While hearing the plea against his arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case, a three-judge bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, has directed Khan to approach the Islamabad High Court, from where he was arrested by paramilitary soldiers on Tuesday.
Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) issued a directive asking workers to remain away from the SC.
"The leadership of PTI Islamabad has issued a directive that none of our workers should approach the Supreme Court
This message should be conveyed to as many workers as possible," PTI tweeted.
As former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will be appearing before the Supreme Court regarding plea against his arrest, the court has issued an order permitting only lawyers and journalists inside the courtroom.
The security in and around the court complex has also been beefed up. (Dawn reports)
PTI leader Murad Saeed has warned that party supporters would march to Islamabad if former prime minister Imran Khan was not released today.
“My Pakistanis, I am telling you that if Imran Khan is not released today … take to the streets and change your lives,” he said in a video message shared on Twitter.
“I want to tell my brothers and sisters that you need to march to Islamabad after Friday prayers tomorrow [Friday],” the PTI leader added. (Dawn reports)
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to produce PTI Chairman Imran Khan within an hour.
The court issued the directives as a three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Athar Minallah, heard PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s plea against his arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case. (Dawn reports)
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday asked Imran Khan's party to "not make matters worse" and end its violent protest against his arrest as he asserted that he was not in favour of banning the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) despite the party attacking sensitive state installations.
Addressing a press conference here, Bilawal, also the Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), said the PTI's reaction to Khan's arrest in a corruption case was "completely unjustified".
He advised the PTI leadership to not "make matters worse [and] call for an end to violent protests," the Dawn newspaper reported. (PTI)
A top IT body in Pakistan has called on the government to restore the internet services in the country that were suspended in the wake of violent protests erupting after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan.
People in Pakistan have resorted to using various VPN services after the interior ministry directed the Pakistan Telecom Authority to suspend internet services and also some social media platforms on Tuesday.
The Pakistan Software Houses Association (PASHA), president Muhammad Zohaib Khan said, “Apart from the general public, which is struggling to get their work done, the suspension of internet services is causing losses of millions of dollars as no foreign client would give even a few days leverage to its partners in Pakistan".(PTI)
Pakistan's former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a close aide of ousted prime minister Imran Khan, was arrested on Thursday for "inciting violent protests" and threatening peace, amid the worsening political turmoil in the country that has left at least eight people dead.
The PTI claimed that 66-year-old Qureshi was transferred to an "undisclosed location".Police said PTI leaders Qureshi, Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry, Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, Falaknaz Chitrali, Musarrat Jamshed Cheema and Maleeka Bokhari had been arrested so far.
"Arrests had been made for inciting arson and violent protests under a well thought out plan for threatening peace," Police said. (PTI)
Foreign Minister and Pakistan People's Party leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari today called for an immediate end to the protests and advised Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party to not make things worse.
Addressing the media in Karachi, Bhutto Zardari said that ex-PM Imran had abused his power when he was in office and that the allegations against him were "serious". The arrest has been carried out lawfully, he added. "But the PTI had already decided that their reaction would not be political and they would become a militant organisation, that they would pick up stones and guns and attack the state," he said.
"Their reaction is completely unjustified. It is violent and has created a situation in which serious conversations need to be had. But the only advice I can give to PTI is that what you have done is done, those who were involved will have to give answers. Now, don’t make matters worse [and] call for an end to violent protests and declare that you will abide by the rule of law and Constitution. Accept that you were will engage with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as citizens and not as terrorists," Bhutto Zardari said. "What has happened, has happened. Don’t make things more difficult for yourself."
The building of Pakistan's national radio broadcaster Radio Pakistan was set on fire by protesters in Peshawar yesterday. Photos on social media showed charred the interior and the exterior of the radio office burnt and charred.
Audi Pakistan said in a statement that its showroom in Lahore was subjected to "severe destruction" in the wake of the clashes between police and protesters.
“Due to the escalating violence and unrest in the area, we were unable to prevent the damage inflicted upon our showroom despite our best efforts,” the statement issued on Wednesday said.
“The destruction of our showroom is a significant loss for us. We have invested considerable time, resources, and dedication in creating a welcoming and exceptional environment for our customers,” it added.
Pakistan Supreme Court will hear a plea by Imran Khan against his arrest in the Al-Qadir case today.
A three-judge bench will hear the plea at 2 pm on May 11, reported Pakistani daily Dawn.
In the latest twist to the ongoing turmoil in Pakistan, the country’s establishment has compounded the hydra-headed crisis confronting it by arresting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan. This comes amid an ugly mood in the street owing to economic stagnation and hardship — average inflation is running close to 30 per cent — and the lack of employment and economic opportunities.
Imran Khan has been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau in the Al Qadir Trust case, alleging his and his wife’s role in causing a loss of 190 million pounds to the exchequer in the course of his government’s dealings with a property tycoon. He has been hoisted by his own petard. After all, he had come to power in 2018 with more than a helping hand from the army, which involved Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification from holding public office and subsequent conviction in a corruption case through a dubious judicial process. As prime minister, he hounded his political opponents with accountability cases. Having gained popularity on an anti-army, nationalist plank since his ouster from power in April 2022, his quest for an early election has pitted him in a political struggle with the Shehbaz Sharif government, which has brazenly delayed the election to the dissolved assembly of the all-important Punjab province against constitutional norms. The bitter fight has seen all the key institutions of the state — the president, the government backed by its Parliamentary majority, the chief justice of the bitterly divided supreme court, the chief election commissioner and the army — play a partisan role. (Read more)
The ham-handed arrest of Imran Khan from the premises of the Islamabad High Court Tuesday afternoon may only serve to enhance his status among his followers as a fighter for a democratic Pakistan. That, in turn, means there are no easy exits from this spiralling new crisis for any of the key actors in this saga.
The former Prime Minister’s arrest is seen as an action not by the civilian government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif but of the Pakistan Army. (Read more)
Pakistan's Punjab police have booked former prime minister Imran Khan and 1,500 of his party workers for attacking and setting on fire a top army officer's house in Lahore.
Enraged over the arrest of their leader in a corruption case on Tuesday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief's supporters on Wednesday stormed the General Headquarters of the Army. They set residence of the Lahore Corps Commander on fire while attacking military vehicles and installations.
The PTI chairman, his deputy Shah Mahmood Qureshi and others have been named under murder, terrorism and 20 other heinous offences for attacking the Corps Commander House known as 'Jinnah House' in Lahore Cantonment on Tuesday.
Khan and others have also been charged with looting valuables worth over 150 million rupees from the Jinnah House. According to the FIR filed on Wednesday, two people were killed in the attack. (PTI)
Islamabad Police today said that PTI leaders like Asad Umar and Shah Mahmood Qureshi were arrested for "inciting violent protests."
“Arrests had been made for inciting arson and violent protests under a well-thought-out plan for threatening peace,” the Islamabad police said on Twitter.
"Islamabad Police arrested Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry, Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, Falknaz Chitrali, Musrat Jamsheed Cheema and Malika Bukhari. All arrests have been made in compliance with legal requirements. More arrests are expected. Avoid spreading rumors and incitement in public," the cops added.
At least eight people were killed, and up to 290 were injured in ongoing clashes with law enforcement officers across Pakistan following the arrest of the country's former prime minister Imran Khan, Dawn reported today.
The conflicts culminated in the arrest of nearly 1,900 demonstrators and the destruction of various government buildings, including police stations.
This comes after an accountability court in Islamabad gave NAB custody of former Pakistan PM Imran Khan for eight days in connection with the Al Qadir Trust case on Wednesday. (ANI)
“Kaha tha Imran Khan ko na chhedna” (We told you don’t touch Imran Khan). If there’s a single slogan that captures the collapse of Pakistan’s state-citizen contract, this is it. Never since Pakistan’s dismemberment in 1971 has the country faced such a profound crisis. The surreal breach of the army’s General Headquarters (GHQ) is a first of its kind. Already volatile, the arrest of former Pakistani prime minister and leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan, and the storm of consequent protests, has condemned the country’s fundamentals to chance and contingency. Khan’s moral cult status and Islamic populism, lubricated by an imploding economy, is a systemic shock.
The Pakistan army’s political supremacy, institutional cohesion, and mass popularity, have long been articles of faith. Today, all three lie in tatters. Unlike previous instances, the generals don’t have the people’s support, recently faced an acute institutional split that played out in the rivalry between former chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and pro-Khan former chief of Inter-Services Intelligence Lt. General Faiz Hameed (the wounds of which are yet to heal), and grudgingly accept that they lack the resources to fight arch-adversary, India. Combine this with low public acceptability of traditional political parties, mass support for Khan, and forex reserves dwindling at around US$4-5 billion, and the gravity of Pakistan’s distress becomes clear. (Read more)
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters held a protest outside Pakistan Embassy in Washington against former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's arrest. The protesters called for the release of Imran Khan and even raised slogans against Chief Justice and army generals.
In the protests, people were seen chanting slogans like "Imran tere jaanisaar beshumar beshumar" and "Free Free Imran Khan." The people held banners which read, "Free Imran Khan Free Pakistan."
Speaking to ANI, Ex-President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf US, Johny Bashir said, "Our leader was kidnapped by a mafia I won't call it police and that too without any charges. The most honest man in the country. He wants a prosperous Pakistan and these corrupt people, corrupt police, corrupt politicians and some of the corrupt people of the establishment have kidnapped him, put him in jail without any warrant and without any cases, the bogus cases against him and we condemn that and we want him to be free." (ANI)
In an address to the nation on Wednesday, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said strict action would be taken against "state's enemies" as he slammed Khan's PTI for violence that gripped the country after his arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case.
“The miscreants will be dealt with iron hands. They will be punished according to the law,” the prime minister said and urged PTI protesters to immediately stop “anti-state activities”.
“They attacked sensitive property as if they were enemies. I have never seen such heartbreaking scenes...We will not allow anyone to conspire. We will not let their nefarious agenda succeed,” he said. (PTI)
Protesters stormed a radio station in the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, protesting the arrest of ex-PM Imran Khan.
His supporters in Peshawar raided a building housing Radio Pakistan, damaging equipment and setting it ablaze, said police official Naeem Khan. Some employees were trapped inside, he said, and police sought to restore order.
Senior PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been arrested by the Islamabad police and moved to an undisclosed location, reported Pakistani daily Dawn, citing a video shared by PTI. The video shows Qureshi being taken away by plainclothes policemen.
A Pakistani court has turned over the 70-year-old leader to the custody of Pakistan’s anti-graft body, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), for eight days for further questioning.
The former international cricket star is now being held in a police guesthouse in Islamabad.
Pakistan’s government called in the army Wednesday to help end deadly unrest in the wake of the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan, warning protesters against any further attacks on state installations.
The army issued a statement saying it had shown restraint during earlier violence but any further assaults on the military or law enforcement agencies, state installations and properties “will be met with severe retaliation”. (AP)
Pakistan's government called out the military Wednesday in areas roiled by deadly violence following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was dragged from a courtroom and ordered held for another eight days on new corruption charges that outraged his supporters and deepened the country's political turmoil.
In an address to the nation, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the unrest by Khan's supporters "damaged sensitive public and private property," forcing him to deploy the military in the capital of Islamabad, the most populous province of Punjab and in volatile regions of the northwest.
After Khan was arrested Tuesday, crowds in Islamabad and other major cities blocked roads, clashed with police, and set fire to police checkpoints and military facilities in violence that left six people dead and hundreds arrested. On Wednesday, protesters stormed a radio station in the northwestern city of Peshawar. (AP)
The supporters of former premier Imran Khan on Wednesday attacked the Lahore residence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, police said. According to police, over 500 miscreants from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party reached the Model Town Lahore residence of the prime minister in the early hours of Wednesday and set ablaze vehicles parked over there, reports PTI.
The police official said only the guards were present at the prime minister’s house when the miscreants attacked. They also set on fire a police post there.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Wednesday, in his first address following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, claimed that “all evidence” against the PTI chief was present in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
He said that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is conducting an investigation on the basis of the evidence.
Further, he questioned how the PTI cabinet was kept “completely in the dark” about the matter.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in his first address following the arrest of former PM Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case, said that damaging public property is an "act of terrorism," and "enmity" towards the country. He added that Pakistan’s political history had been “very bitter.'
According to a report in Dawn, the PM added that revengeful acts in politics never rendered good results. He also said that the federal ministers used to air details of cases against political opponents during the PTI tenure and former premier Imran Khan used to predict arrests, Dawn reported.
“Not only political opponents but family and relatives were not forgiven too,” PM Shehbaz said during his address.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will address the nation today, Dawn reported quoting state broadcaster PTV News.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Wednesday said that the police have begun tear gas shelling and using water cannons at families and children in front of its office located on the Jail Road.
A tweet shared by the party said, "In front of the Jail Road Tehreek-e-Insaf office, the police have started shelling families and children with tear gas and using water cannon."
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry, appearing in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, to file a petition against the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, told the reporters that 'According to the law, whether Imran Khan was taken into custody or not is not the task of ISPR to decide.'
According to a Twitter update by PTI party, Fawad Chaudhry was restrained from arrest till May 12 by the Islamabad High Court.
Chaudhry further stated, 'There is a conspiracy to fight PTI and army against each other... Imran Khan did not take anyone's name for the first time. The procedure was to investigate the accused.'
The Pakistan Ministry of Interior Wednesday requisitioned army troops in Islamabad to “maintain the law and order situation," Dawn reported. It was done on the request of the chief commissioner, the report said.
According to a notification available with the Dawn, the exact number of troops would be “worked out by the ICT administration and the MO Dte, GHQ”.
The date of de-requisitioning of the troops would be decided subsequently after mutual consultation among both stakeholders, the notification added, according to the report.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi Wednesday took to Twitter to deny the reports of his arrest.
Qureshi wrote, "I have not been arrested, as yet. However be warned! Every kind of strategy is in place to spread disinformation, create chaos, panic and terror, to try and break the spirit of our party and supporters. Let me warn you, this is a huge mistake. The people of Pakistan will NOT sit in their homes. No fear! PROTEST!"
The death toll as a result of violent protests in Peshawar jumped to four, the spokesperson at the Lady Reading Hospital Muhammad Asim told Dawn.
More than 84 wounded people had been brought to the facility today, Asim said, according to Dawn, adding that the injured persons were being provided with medical aid.
Twelve police personnel were injured amid the ongoing protests in Peshawar, DawnNewsTV reported quoting the police. According to the report, three of them were in critical condition.
Moreover, a constable, identified as Hakim Khan, was injured during a firing by demonstrators, according to the Islamabad police. The police added that the injured constable is out of danger now, Dawn reported.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Wednesday alleged that an attack is underway in former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence, Dawn reported.
PTI leader Shireen Mazari, sharing a tweet, claimed, 'Another attack on Zaman Park with heavy shelling going on right now when only Mrs Khan is there alone with just a couple of domestic staff.'
“What purpose does such an attack serve beyond pure harassment and terrorisation of Khan’s wife,” Mazari tweeted.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has not been detained, as reported by media outlets earlier in the day, PTI leader Shireen Mazari told Dawn.
The police Wednesday arrested another 23 protesters in Karachi as demonstrations against former Pakistan Prime Minister and PTI chief Imran Khan’s arrest intensified, Dawn reported.
Gulshan Superintendent of Police Zafar Siddique Chaanga, according to the report, said, “We have arrested a total of 23 miscreants —12 at the Insaf House on Sharea Faisal and 11 at Millenium Mall.”
Dawn quoted media reports which highlighted that the protesters attacked the law enforces, who resorted to tear gas shelling and baton-charge.
The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Wednesday said that May 9 will be remembered as a “black chapter,” as it referred to the protests “targeting army property and installations” that took place after former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest, Dawn reported.
“We will not allow anyone to take the law into their hands,” ISPR said in a statement, according to the report.
It further said, on one hand, “these miscreants evoke the nation’s emotions for achieving their limited and selfish objectives and on the other, they deceive people, continuing to highlight the army’s importance”. Read the full story here.
Britain is monitoring the situation in Pakistan carefully, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, after the arrest of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan sparked unrest, news agency Reuters reported.
"The arrest of the former prime minister is an internal matter for Pakistan. We support peaceful democratic processes and adherence to the rule of law and we are monitoring the situation carefully," Sunak told the lawmakers. (Reuters)
The Islamabad Police took to Twitter to announce that action is being taken for those who are inciting public sentiments and are spreading rumours, regarding the protests following the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The police also requested the public to report such persons to them.
Another 100 people were arrested in Punjab on Wednesday over allegations of rioting and violence, as they protested against the arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Dawn reported.
The total number of arrests made amid the ongoing protests has exceeded 1,050, according to the police.
Former British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn took to Twitter to criticise Imran Khan’s arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case, and called it a “dark day for democracy”.
“Solidarity with protestors in Pakistan and beyond demanding his immediate release,” Corbyn tweeted.
Three people have died, and more than a dozen have been injured in Peshawar, Dawn reported quoting journalist Iftikhar Firdous of The Khorasan Diary.
Firdous said that the bodies and injured were being brought to the Lady Reading Hospital. The spokesperson of the Hospital told Dawn that the injured people received bullet wounds on their legs and hands, assuring that they were being provided first aid.
The British Council Pakistan Wednesday cancelled all the exams that were scheduled for May 11 across Pakistan.
The body took to Twitter to share, "Due to the developing situation in the country, we have cancelled all Cambridge International, Pearson, University of London, ACCA & IELTS exams scheduled across Pakistan on Thursday 11 May. Please only follow official British Council communication channels for exam updates."
Section 144 was imposed in Sindh, according to Pakistan daily Dawn.
[Section 144][1] of the Code of Criminal Procedure empowers the district administration to issue orders in the public interest that may place a ban on an activity for a specific period of time.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi was Wednesday arrested in Islamabad, Dawn reported quoting Geo News.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Wednesday said that the internet services across India will remain suspended for an indefinite period, Pakistan daily Dawn quoted a news report by Geo.tv.
The authority confirmed that the decision to block mobile broadband services was taken on the directives of the Ministry of Interior, according to the report.
Nearly 270 people were arrested in Karachi, following the protests that broke out in the city against Imran Khan’s arrest, Dawn reported.
The city’s police chief, in a report submitted by the Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah, stated that miscreants damaging state property were being identified by the authorities and subsequently arrested. CM Shah has also directed the police to ensure that all those responsible for the damages were sent behind bars.
When he was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in a corruption case, cricketer-turned-Prime Minister Imran Khan joined a long list of former premiers who had been arrested after they left office.
From Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was the PM in 1956, to Khan’s predecessor Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, a number of Pakistanis who have occupied the top post have found themselves accused, arrested and tried by the country’s law enforcement agencies.
The country’s ninth PM Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the grandfather of sitting Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was executed in 1979, shortly after he was deposed by a military coup.
Here's the full of former Pakistan PM's who have been arrested.
Soon after the Pakistan government approved the deployment of Army in Punjab, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi raised question over it.
In a video message shared over Twitter, Qureshi said, "The army was very busy and was not available for the elections, but what has happened that the army has been deployed in Punjab and KP today? The nation is not stupid."
The Radio Pakistan building Wednesday was attacked in Peshawar, Dawn quoted the director general Tahir Hussain.
In a statement, he said that a number of miscreants attacked the building, and broke down the main entrance of the office.