TOBA TEK SINGH – Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-backed former MPA from Chak Jhumra, Faisalabad (PP-98), Junaid Afzal Sahi, surrendered himself to police at the Civil Lines Police Station, Faisalabad, on Tuesday.
Sahi had been on the run since being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a Faisalabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC). After his arrest, police presented him before the ATC, which ordered his transfer to district jail to serve his sentence.
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According to sources close to Sahi, he plans to appeal the conviction before the Lahore High Court (LHC) and will also seek a stay order against the by-election scheduled for November 23 on his vacated seat.
Meanwhile, sources said that police also raided the farmhouse of independent candidate Malik Nawab Sher Waseer, who is contesting the NA-96 Jaranwala by-election, but he was not found there. Reports suggest police have been pressuring Waseer to withdraw in favour of PML-N’s Bilal Badar Chaudhry, brother of Federal Minister Talal Chaudhry.
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