<p>Islamabad: A court in Pakistan on Thursday reserved the verdict on the police's plea seeking a 30-day remand for Shah Mahmood Qureshi, vice chairman of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party in connection with the May 9 attack on military headquarters, according to media report.</p>.<p>The development comes a day after the 67-year-old former foreign minister was manhandled by police officials as they re-arrested him outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, a step termed “illegal” by him and his party ahead of general elections on February 8.</p>.<p>Thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters stormed military and government installations across the country following Khan's arrest in an alleged corruption case on May 9 here this year. Since then, Khan and scores of PTI workers have faced multiple cases for attacking military installations and government buildings.</p>.Pakistan’s current economic model is not working: World Bank.<p>On Thursday, appearing before Duty Magistrate Syed Jahangir Ali, Prosecution lawyer Akram Amin pleaded to the court for the PTI leader's remand saying that a remand of up to 90 days can be given in a terrorism case, <em>The News International</em> reported.</p>.<p>The newspaper quoted the prosecutor as saying that they have taken reports from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and intelligence agencies on the May 9 violence.</p>.<p>Presenting the video statement and Qureshi's tweets as evidence, the prosecution lawyer said Qureshi issued a protest call on his social media handle during the riots that broke out following the arrest of the PTI founder Khan in a corruption case earlier in May this year.</p>.<p>Stating that the protest calls were irrefutable evidence that it was an attack on institutions, the prosecutor maintained: “We have to see what elements were behind the call for protest. We have irrefutable evidence in the light of which the arrest is made.” </p><p>Qureshi’s lawyer Malik Imran told the court that there is no word mentioned in the report or in the PTI leader’s speech based on which a case could be filed against his client and said the FIR’s copy was not present in the entire challan.</p>.Bangladesh garment factories fire workers after protests, unions say.<p>“After hearing the arguments, the court reserved its verdict on police’s plea seeking 30-day remand of Qureshi in the GHQ attack case related to May 9 mayhem,” the newspaper said.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, deposing before the duty magistrate, Qureshi claimed he was “tortured mentally and physically as well as kept in harshest cold weather” for the past few months.</p>.<p> Qureshi also said he would swear on the Holy Quran that he was not present in Rawalpindi on May 9 and instead, he was in Karachi that day.</p>.<p>“I was with my wife in the Aga Khan Hospital. Get a record from PEMRA, I was present in Karachi,” the newspaper quoted Qureshi as saying.</p>
<p>Islamabad: A court in Pakistan on Thursday reserved the verdict on the police's plea seeking a 30-day remand for Shah Mahmood Qureshi, vice chairman of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party in connection with the May 9 attack on military headquarters, according to media report.</p>.<p>The development comes a day after the 67-year-old former foreign minister was manhandled by police officials as they re-arrested him outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, a step termed “illegal” by him and his party ahead of general elections on February 8.</p>.<p>Thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters stormed military and government installations across the country following Khan's arrest in an alleged corruption case on May 9 here this year. Since then, Khan and scores of PTI workers have faced multiple cases for attacking military installations and government buildings.</p>.Pakistan’s current economic model is not working: World Bank.<p>On Thursday, appearing before Duty Magistrate Syed Jahangir Ali, Prosecution lawyer Akram Amin pleaded to the court for the PTI leader's remand saying that a remand of up to 90 days can be given in a terrorism case, <em>The News International</em> reported.</p>.<p>The newspaper quoted the prosecutor as saying that they have taken reports from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) and intelligence agencies on the May 9 violence.</p>.<p>Presenting the video statement and Qureshi's tweets as evidence, the prosecution lawyer said Qureshi issued a protest call on his social media handle during the riots that broke out following the arrest of the PTI founder Khan in a corruption case earlier in May this year.</p>.<p>Stating that the protest calls were irrefutable evidence that it was an attack on institutions, the prosecutor maintained: “We have to see what elements were behind the call for protest. We have irrefutable evidence in the light of which the arrest is made.” </p><p>Qureshi’s lawyer Malik Imran told the court that there is no word mentioned in the report or in the PTI leader’s speech based on which a case could be filed against his client and said the FIR’s copy was not present in the entire challan.</p>.Bangladesh garment factories fire workers after protests, unions say.<p>“After hearing the arguments, the court reserved its verdict on police’s plea seeking 30-day remand of Qureshi in the GHQ attack case related to May 9 mayhem,” the newspaper said.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, deposing before the duty magistrate, Qureshi claimed he was “tortured mentally and physically as well as kept in harshest cold weather” for the past few months.</p>.<p> Qureshi also said he would swear on the Holy Quran that he was not present in Rawalpindi on May 9 and instead, he was in Karachi that day.</p>.<p>“I was with my wife in the Aga Khan Hospital. Get a record from PEMRA, I was present in Karachi,” the newspaper quoted Qureshi as saying.</p>