- Court docket slaps Rs600,000 tremendous on former chief minister.
- ATC additionally directs Nadra DG to dam Khalid Khurshid’s NIC.
- Orders police IG to arrest perpetrator and switch him to jail.
GILGIT: An anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced former Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief to 34 years in jail for threatening safety businesses.
The court docket, other than the sentence, additionally handed down a tremendous of Rs600,000 to the previous chief minister whereas directing the inspector basic of police to arrest and switch him to the jail.
The ATC additional ordered the Nationwide Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) director basic to dam the politician’s computerised nationwide id card (CNIC).
Khurshid was booked for threatening safety businesses, GB’s chief secretary, and chief election commissioner with critical penalties throughout a PTI energy present on Could 26, 2024.
A primary info report (FIR) was lodged towards the PTI chief at GB’s Metropolis Police Station below the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
Nevertheless, the previous chief government remained an absconder and was absent from case proceedings.
Elected to the workplace in 2020, Khurshid was disqualified by GB’s Chief Court docket in July 2023 for holding a pretend diploma below Articles 62 and 63 of the Structure of Pakistan.
The ex-CM had connected a pretend diploma from the College of London in his nomination papers, after which the Larger Training Commissioner (HEC) formally requested the varsity to confirm his diploma, which was declared as “pretend” in an official response by the establishment.
The politician had joined the PTI in 2018 and was elevated to the place of Diamer-Astore’s divisional president.
Lately, Khurshid, as per The Information, was booked in a number of instances with regard to the occasion’s protest at Islamabad’s D-Chowk in October.