In the liquor and weapons recovery case, a District and Sessions Court in Islamabad issued an arrest warrant for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Wednesday, instructing authorities to bring him before the court on September 17.
When neither the accused nor his attorneys showed up for the hearing, Judicial Magistrate Mubashir Hassan Chishti issued the warrant.
Gandapur was ordered to be taken into custody and brought to the next hearing by the court.
Raja Zahoor-ul-Hassan, Gandapur’s attorney, showed there shortly after and asked that the warrant be suspended. He maintained that his client had already suffered grave consequences as a result of the arrest order’s media dissemination.
The magistrate, however, turned down the plea and made it apparent that the warrant would not be revoked until the accused appeared in court.
