RAWALPINDI:
City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani said on Sunday that those involved in “heinous crimes” in May 9 riots will be thoroughly investigated.
In a press conference, Rawalpindi CPO said police have so far arrested 264 people in 17 cases and that the total number of “criminals arrested in case number 708 RA Bazar (GHQ case) has increased to 76”.
He added that arrests are being made through identification via videos and the person seen throwing petrol in the video has also been arrested while the person who instigated the crowd to move towards the GHQ gate is also behind bars.
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The CPO maintained that among the miscreants arrested yesterday are Ehsan, Abdullah, Idris, Waqas, Ayaz, Qamar-ul-Zaman, Umar, Ali Hussain, Farhadullah, Asmat, Abu Bakr, Qamar Zaman, Sajjad Munir, Nabil, Sadaqat, Noman, Aamir Shahid, Farhad, Shehryar, Lal Shah, Akmal, Adeel, Pirzada Shehbaz, Arshad, Manawar and Syed Qamar.
He informed that during the riots, the highways continued to function as per usual and the security of important installations remained intact, adding that the Metrobus suffered a loss of Rs800 million.
Hamdani added that there was no lack of intelligence in Rawalpindi, due to which the situation in the city did not deteriorate much.
The CPO said that a special committee headed by SSP (Investigation) Rawalpindi Zunaira Azfar is investigating the cases related to sensitive institutions and also presented the photos of 26 miscreants who attacked the GHQ gate to the media.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on May 9 triggered violent protests across the country.
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It was reported that around 250 to 300 protesters headed toward the GHQ from Saddar.
According to a case registered by the police, the protesters, who were armed with petrol bombs and batons and led by former provincial law minister Raja Basharat and Khalid Jadoon, also raised slogans against the Pakistan Army.
The protesters stormed GHQ Gate No. 1 at the instigation of their leaders after breaking its gate. They broke the windows and doors of the GHQ building and severely damaged the government property inside and outside the building and started fire by throwing petrol bombs.
The accused also set fire and pelted stones at the personnel on duty and spread fear and panic.
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