Gulalai Ismail booked for making anti-state speeches

ISLAMABAD (92 News) – The Shehzad Town police have registered a case against Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Gulalai Ismail for fomenting hatred against the state under the cover of the Farishta rape-cum-murder case. According to the FIR, Gulalai had criticized the Army as well. It stated that the PTM leader had tried to invoke anti-state sentiments in Pashtuns in relation to the rape and murder of minor Farishta. The FIR was filed under section 6/7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Farishta’s body was discovered from forest two days ago and later shifted to the Poly Clinic for post-mortem. Her family, which belongs to Mohmand Agency, said they had tried to file a missing person report with the police on May 15, but it took police until May 19 to register the FIR and, even then, a proper search was not initiated. Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered action against police officials for negligence in a case pertaining to alleged rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl, Farishta, in Islamabad, according to a statement issued from his office. The prime minister ordered registration of cases against concerned station house officer (SHO) and other relevant officials, and departmental proceedings be initiated and finalised at the earliest; while the SDPO be placed under suspension and SP of the zone be made OSD till finalisation of judicial inquiry. Meanwhile, Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Ch said that the PTM using the murder of Farishta for its two-takka politics shows that their politics has no heart. “These incidents are our collective grief. In Kasur, a case was registered after the murder of nine girls, but no one uttered such nonsense conversation being spoken by the PTM.” https://twitter.com/fawadchaudhry/status/1131263440847286272