Imran Khan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and Sheikh Rashid, the chairman of the Awami Muslim League, were all cleared by a district court in Islamabad on Thursday in a case involving rioting and vandalism during the 2022 “Azadi March.”
In the process of releasing its reserved ruling on the politicians’ acquittal pleas, the court cleared them.
In a case involving the opposition party’s protest march in 2022, which was filed at the federal capital’s I-9 police station on charges of damage and violating Section 144, Judicial Magistrate Malik Muhammad Imran rendered a decision.
In the same case, Sadaqat Abbasi and Ali Nawaz Awan were also found not guilty by the district and session courts.On October 28, 2022, the PTI started its protracted march into the federal capital in an effort to pressure the coalition government into holding early elections.
