Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan's Close Ally And Former Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Arrested

<p><strong>Islamabad:</strong> Pakistani authorities on Sunday arrested Sheikh Rashid, a key ally of former premier <a title="Imran Khan" href="https://ift.tt/HnvxlZM" data-type="interlinkingkeywords">Imran Khan</a> and leader of Awami Muslim League, for his alleged involvement in corruption, said his nephew.</p> <p>Rashid, 72, and two of his aides were arrested from his residence in Bahria Town of Rawalpindi and shifted to an undisclosed location, his nephew Sheikh Rashid Shafiq said in a video message.</p> <p>&ldquo;I request the top judiciary to take notice of the arrest of a senior politician as he was not wanted in any case,&rdquo; Sheikh Shafiq said, adding that his elder brother and a&nbsp;servant was also arrested by police.</p> <p>The details of the charges against Rashid have not been released so far.</p> <p>Rashid, who is the head of AML &nbsp;party, remained a staunch ally of former prime minister Khan and was appointed as interior minister during his government.</p> <p>In a tweet on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Khan&rsquo;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf condemned Rashid&rsquo;s arrest.</p> <p>&ldquo;The political victimisation and fascism continues, this time with the arrest of Sheikh Rashid,&rdquo; it said.</p> <p>Rashid&rsquo;s arrest seems to be part of the crackdown unleashed after the May 9 violence by the PTI workers who torched several state buildings, including the official residence of Corps Commander Lahore.</p> <p>Earlier this year in June, the AML leader had alleged that the Islamabad police broke into his house and beat up his servants.</p> <p>He had also claimed that in a second incident, a &ldquo;force clad in plain clothes&rdquo; tortured his employees at his Lal Haveli residence in Rawalpindi.&nbsp;</p> <p><em><strong>(This report has been published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. Apart from the headline, no editing has been done in the copy by ABP Live.)</strong></em></p> <p><strong>Subscribe And Follow ABP Live On Telegram:</strong><a href="https://ift.tt/tFUjvJN"> <strong>https://ift.tt/0gNrEXn> <p><strong>ALSO READ |<a href="https://ift.tt/a4xgUoZ"> Heavy Rains, Narmada Dam Water Discharge Trigger Flooding In Gujarat, 9,600 People Shifted To Safety</a></strong></p>

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