President Arif Alvi acquitted in Parliament attack case

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday acquitted President Arif Alvi in the Parliament attack case along with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The senior party leadership, including Planning Minister Asad Umar, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, and Provincial Minister Shaukat Yousufzai have also acquitted in the case.

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ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi Friday declined to claim immunity in the Parliament House Attack case. Also appeared before an anti-terrorism court (ATC).

The president, PM and several other PTI leaders booked in the case. During the party’s 2014 sit-in against the then PML-N government.

President Alvi appeared along with his counsel, Babar Awan. At the ATC, where judge Muhammad Ali Warraich was hearing the case.

During the hearing. The president filed an appeal stating that he would not be availing his immunity and said that Islam does not allow pardons.

“I have tried to read Islamic history. There is no space for a pardon; I am by the Constitution of Pakistan. The Holy Quran is a bigger law than the Constitution,” Alvi said. The president said that the Constitution allows him to avail immunity, but he would not take it up.” All the caliphs appeared in court with great dignity.”