Pakistan
Pakistan: PTI lawmaker booked for disrupting anti-encroachment drive
Islamabad: A lawmaker of Pakistan's ruling PTI was booked for attempted murder, interference in government duties, and disruption during an anti-encroachment drive carried out at his Malir farmhouse a day prior, media reports said.
Karachi police said the first information report (FIR) against Haleem Adil Sheikh — the leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly — included clauses pertaining to disturbing peace, financial loss to government property, assault on government employees, attempted murder, intimidation, and interference in the government's work, reports The News International newspaper.
At least 70 people, including the PTI lawmaker, were named in the case filed at the Memon Goth police station on behalf of Muhammad Ayub, a resident of Karachi's Korangi neighbourhood, reports the newspaper.
The case was filed after an operation against Sheikh's family farmhouses in Karachi on Saturday in which anti-encroachment teams encountered resistance, with protesters throwing stones at government staff and smashing windows of their vehicles, the newspaper reported.
Sindh Information and Local Government Minister Nasir Hussain Shah told the newspaper the operation against encroachments was being conducted by the orders of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed.
“Haleem Adil Sheikh was crying hoarse that action had been taken against his family,” Shah noted.
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