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D ay a f t e r D e n i a l , a n o t h e r c o u r t s e n D s fawa D c h o n 2 - D ay r e m a n D g pti leader brougHt to Court witH faCe Covered witH blaCk ClotH g Hiba CH says sHe, daugHters not being allowed to meet Her Husband despite Court ’s orders

“ the entire pti has similar views that fawad Chaudhr y said in h s statement awan told the court

He said the pti leader did not flee the countr y on the pretext of health in h s statement before the court, Chaudhr y said he was not retract ng his remarks

“ it s tantamount to endangering democracy in the countr y if freedom of express on is denied he to d the court the pti leader said he had acknowledged his statement adding: it s my right

He said gagg ng freedom of expression w a s a k n t o t u r n n g pa k i s t a n n t o a c o u n t r y l i ke m y a n m a r i t w i n o t b e a d e m o c r a c y i f t h e p e o p e a r e f o r c e d t o s t o p c r i t c s n g t h e p o w e r f u l ”

Chaudhr y said he stood by his statement and would not backtrack on t

He called on his rivals to not take charge of important posit ons if they were not w lling to accept crit cism

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ISLAMABAD s ta f f r e p o r t alocal court here saturday accepted the police s pet tion against judicial magistrate order that denied extension in phys ca remand of pti leader fawad Chaudhr y in a sed tion case and granted police another two-day remand of the pti leader additional d strict and sessions Judge tahir mehmood khan while approv ng the po ice s appl cation ssued orders for product on of fawad Ch in the court Coincided with the hear ng another court also rejected fawad Ch’s plea seeking discharge him from the case it s to be noted that fawad Ch was taken nto custody on wednesday for allegedly nciting violence aga nst a constitutional institution the election Comm ssion of pakistan (eCp) a first information report (fir) aga nst him was registered at is amabad ’s kohsar police station on a comp a nt of eCp secretar y umar Hameed the fir stated that Chaudhr y n a speech outside pti Chairman imran khan’s house had allegedly threatened the eCp and the r family members on saturday the pti eader was brought to court with his faced covered with a black c oth on directives issued by additional district and sessions Judge tah r mehmood khan who said that appearance of the suspect in the court was mandator y n cases where investigators seek a phys ca remand Concurrently, another hear ng on the pti eader s petition seek ng post-arrest bail was also under way at a local court the two cases were heard separately at different courts ocated in close proximity at f-8 judicial complex the former information m nister had on friday moved an app ication through his attorney before additiona district and sessions

Judge fa zan Haider gillani seeking his bai not retracting my remarks as the pti leader was brought to the court on saturday babar awan counsel for fawad Ch questioned merits of the case and ins sted his client did not say anything that would pose a security risk to the countr y speaking to media outside the court fawad Ch s wife Hiba sa d she was not being allowed to meet her husband despite the court s orders i request pun ab caretaker Chief minister mohsin naqvi to allow my daughters to meet their father,” she said she also ca led out punjab and islamabad pol ce officials for their al eged highhandedness in dea ing w th her family Hiba said she was ready to fi e a pet tion “ if that is the only way my ch ldren and i can meet fawad ear ier the court summoned the prosecutor and asked h m to read out the petition seeking the extens on in the physical remand of the pti eader prosecutor adnan said it was necessar y to take fawad Ch to lahore for a photogrammetr c test we also need access to the suspect ’s electronic gadgets including h s cel phone and aptop to determine other e ements who connived with h m

He urged the court to set aside the judicial magistrate s order and grant an extension in the physical remand of the ex-min ster pakistan musl m leaguenawaz ’s (pml-n) sen or vice president and Chief organizer mar yam nawaz saturday said that she and her father nawaz sharif were well aware of the inflation and economic problems be ng faced by the public promising that her party would steer the countr y out of economic woes but t w ll take some t me “ your Quaid your be oved leader wou d return to the countr y soon,” mar yam nawaz mar yam told to jub lant supporters and workers who thronged allama iqba international airport to welcome the r leader the pml-n svp and chief organizer returned to pakistan to beg n the reorganisation of the party ” ahead of pol s in punjab the pml-n ch ef organizer landed at lahore’s a ama iqbal international airport from abu dhabi at around 3:30pm via pia flight pk-264 upon her arr val at lahore airport, she tweeted: “ pak sar zameen shad bad dur ng her address mar yam nawaz asked the nation to “ have faith in pml-n ” and it wi l steer the countr y out of the current quagmire she said, “ the point that four years of d squalificat on ncompetence and neglect have pushed the economy to the present stage and it will take some time ” in her address mar yam vowed her father would also return to the countr y “ in upcomng days w th god s blessings [and] in your affect on she asserted the pml-n would win the upcom ng punjab elect ons with s gnificant margins “ nawaz sharif is stil the top eader of the countr y despite being ousted from power three times she remarked without naming anyone mar yam sa d, “ these people forced nawaz sharif to go in exile twice but it was nawaz sharif who steered pak stan out of trouble three times the pml-n leader said she and nawaz sharif were well aware of the inflation that the countr y was mired in and prom sed that her party would resolve the challenge

ISLAMABAD s ta f f r e p o r t pakistan tehreek-e-insaf (pti) Chairman imran khan came down hard on the imported government for treating pti senior v ce president fawad Chaudhr y like a terrorist who was taken to the court handcuffed and head covered pti Chairman in a strong reaction on saturday f ayed the imported government and said that the law of the jungle now prevails where might is right imran khan further said that the Constitution and law of the land have been totally subjugated by the pharaohs of today “ taking fawad Chaudhr y to court handcuffed and head/face covered like a terrorist shows the low and vindictive levels mported government and the state have reached he added pti Chairman stated: “ the treatment of fawad Chaudhr y and pti senator azam swat and shahbaz gill before him leaves no doubt in peop e s mind that now we are a banana republ c ”

‘appeal to CJp to protect fawad Ch s const tutional rights meanwhile, pakistan tehreek-e-insaf

(pti) Chairman imran khan saturday wrote to Chief Justice of pakistan (CJp) umar ata band al, urging the latter to protect constitutional r ghts of his party leader fawad Chaudhr y according to details, the former premier penned down the letter after fawad Ch was sent on remand for threatening members of election Commission of pakistan (eCp) in the etter to the CJp, imran khan cited the nhumane treatments meted out to senator azam swati and pti leader shahbaz gill while they were in the custody of law enforcement agencies (leas)

He feared that similar treatment would be meted out to the former information min ster, in v olation of articles 9, 10a and 14 imran khan mentioned that as the top judge s the custodian of the const - tution, he requests him to “ensure that honour and dignity of fawad Chaudhr y are not violated it is pertinent to mention here that a judicial magistrate on saturday granted police two-day physical remand of pakistan tehreek-e-insaf (pti) leader fawad Chaudhr y who was arrested for threaten ng members of e ection Commission of pakistan (eCp) according to detai s Judicial magistrate waqas ahmed raja accepted the pol ce s request for an extension in fawad Chaudhr y s physical remand sending the former information min ster on two-day physical remand in the order the jud cia mag strate ordered the is amabad police to produce the pti eader before his court on monday (Januar y 30) upon the expir y of his remand THe ca Se: the former federa m nister was arrested for ‘ threatening ’ election Commission of pakistan (eCp) members a case against pt leader was reg stered at the kohsar police stat on n is- amabad on the complaint of secretar y of the e ection Commission of pakistan (eCp) omer Hamid khan a case against pti leader was regis- tered at the kohsar po ice station in islamabad on the complaint of secretar y of the election Comm ssion of pakistan (eCp) omer Hamid khan