Daily Times

A Peshawar court on Saturday sent an Afghan national on 14-day judicial remand to jail in a case of hoisting Afghan national flag in Peshawar. Police produced the Afghan citizen in local court on charges of displaying his country’s flag for provoking the general public. He was asked to remove Afghanistan’s flag but he refused to do so, police told the court. The man named Naimat, presently residing in an area of Peshawar, was arrested on Thursday by officials over displaying the Afghan flag on a billboard near Board Bazaar area of the city. Judicial magistrate’s court had earlier given one-day remand of the man to police in the case. An FIR was registered against him under Section 153-A of Pakistan Penal Code, dealing with charges of promoting enmity among different segments of the population. The police alleged that the suspect deliberately displayed the flag on the occasion of Pakistan Independence Day with a motive to create hatred and disharmony among Afghan refugees and Pakistani citizens on ethnic grounds.