ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Tuesday acquitted President Arif Ali, leaders of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) and ministers in a case pertaining attack on the buildings of Parliament and Pakistan Television (PTV) during the sit-in of 2014.
PTI leaders including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Shafqat Mehmood, Asad Umer, Pervaiz Khattak, Abdul Aleem Khan, Jahangir Tareen, Saifullah Niazi and Shaukat Yousafzai were also amongst 80 people who had been acquitted.
ATC Judge Muhammad Ali Warraich announced the verdict which was reserved previously after listening arguments from all respondents at large. Other people who had been acquitted were include Raja Khurram Nawaz, Amjad Rashid, Manazir Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Syed Tehzeebul Hassan Shah, Gulzar Hussain, Muhammad Azad, Talib Hussain Asadi, Muhammad Usman, Riaz Hussain, Nazar Hussain, Muhammad Akhter, Akhter Abbas, Muhammad Ibrahim, Khurram Shahzad Barkat, Sajid Mehmood, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Imtiaz, Naveed Ahmed, Akbar Ali, Muhammad Zeshan, Luqman Akram, Abdul Majeed, Tariq Mehmood, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Ali, Abdul Salam, Ghulam Murtaza, Zulqernain, Basit Ibrahim, Naseer Ahmed, Ibrahim Qavi, Muhammad Haroon, Muzib Hussain, Muhammad Ramzan, Shahid Imran, Muhammad Abdullah, Muhammad Farooq, Sohail Mehmood, Muhammad Usman, Abdul Qayum, Muhammad Amin, Umer Daraz, Nasir Abbas, Ghulam Hussain, Muhammad Abdullah, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Tahir, Muhammad Irshad, Mirza Adeel Baig, Syed Sahil Hussain, Aqeel Hafeez, Adeel Hafeez, Atif Zahoor, Meharban Ali, Basit Ibrahim, Asad Aziz Abbasi, Ali Shahbaz, Muhammad Asad, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Shahid Imran, Munir Ahmed, Abdul Majid, Abdul Ahad, Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Ahsan, Muhammad Naeem, Irfan Hussain, Asif Satti, Shahveez Khan and Habibur Rehman.
The secretariat police station had registered the case on August 30, 2014 during the sit-in of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT).