Islamabad:Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid’s nephew, MNA Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, has been arrested in connection with raising slogans at Masjid-e-Nabvi in Medinah against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his Umrah entourage, according to a report on Sunday. MNA Shafiq reached Islamabad International Airport through a private airline on Sunday when the authorities rounded him up.
A case has been registered in Faisalabad police station against the nephew of Sh Rashid for his alleged participation in the protest against the visiting PM and his companions held by the PTI people at holy Masjid-e-Nabvi. The plain-clothed FIA officials detained Mr Shafiq as soon as he reached the Islamabad Airport.
Sh Rashid condemned his nephew’s arrest saying the government had indulged in political victimization. He ruled that after registering cases, the authorities were conducting house raids. He claimed that at the behest of government, the authorities were going to arrest plenty of PTI people. “The country is descending to revenge politics,” he said adding that cases were registered against him, Imran Khan and Fawad Chaudhry, though none of them was present in Saudi Arabia.