Fawad, currently a member of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party, was taken to an undisclosed location on Saturday after police raided his residence in Islamabad, police sources told.
The former minister’s family had claimed he was “abducted from his house in Islamabad by officials in plainclothes when he was having breakfast”.
According to the first information report, Fawad was arrested in connection with a case registered at the Aabpara police station on August 22, 2022, under sections 109 (Punishment of abetment if the Act abetted committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment), 186 (Obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 341(Punishment for wrongful restraint), and 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Besides Fawad, AML chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, PTI leaders Murad Saeed, Faisal Javaid Khan, Asad Umer, Raja Khurram Nawaz, Ali Nawaz Khan, Faisal Vawda, Shahzad Wasim, Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, Shibli Faraz, Saifullah Khan Niazi, Shehryar Afridi, Fiazul Hassan Chohan, Firdous Shamim Naqvi, Asad Qaiser, Zahir Abbas Khokhar, Ghulam Sarwar Khan and over 1,000 unidentified people were also booked in the FIR.
