LAHORE: Police have booked PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and over 150 others, including many stalwarts of the party, for holding a rally at Minar-i-Pakistan on Dec 13 on charges of violating the standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to the Covid-19, damaging public property and breaking the park gate locks.
Besides the PML-N vice president, the FIR, registered by the Lorry Adda police, included former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former foreign minister Khwaja Asif, former National Assembly speaker Ahsan Iqbal, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Rana Sanaullah, Talal Chaudhry, Saad Rafique, Pervaiz Malik, Sheikh Rohail Asghar, Azma Bokhari, Samiullah Khan, Afzal Khokhar, Saif Khokhar, Rana Tanvir, Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman, Javed Hashmi, Rana Mashhood, 25 other party leaders and 100-124 unidentified stick-wielding persons ‘several of whom were dressed in khaki shalwar kameez’ (Ansarul Islam of JUI-F ) on the complaint of Mohammad Zameer, the security in-charge of the Greater Iq