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Imran condemns sealing of Centaurus mall by PDM 'mafia'
CDA says management violated regulations

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan on Tuesday condemned the incumbent government’s move to seal Centaurus mall owned by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir premier, who ‘censured’ Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for not highlighting the sacrifices of Kashmiris in a speech.

According to the former premier, the “mafia” Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) actions suggested that there was a “law of the jungle in Pakistan since [the] last eight months” after the PTI’s removal through a no-confidence motion.

Imran furthered that the action sent “negative signals to Kashmiris too”. Posing a question for the country's judges, he asked if they were indeed the “upholders of the law”.

PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry also took to his Twitter handle to comment on the event.

Fawad claimed that Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas stood on his seat during PM Shehbaz’s speech and recorded a protest against Pakistan's weak stance on Kashmir.

“After this event, first his [AJK premier’s] car was stopped in Mangala, and today his business Centaurs Mall in Islamabad has been sealed,” he stated.

Fawad claimed that “such a fascist and undemocratic government had never been seen in the history of Pakistan” and questioned what message was being sent to occupied Kashmir if such actions were taken after the AJK PM protested.

He also asked what message was being given to the investors and said that the slowing economy would further deteriorate due to such moves.

He called for democracy to be "restored" in the country.

Centaurus sealed

The Centaurus mall in Islamabad was sealed by the building control department of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) after six notices were issued to the management.

Despite the notices, the alleged non-conforming use of the building continued in violation of CDA regulations.

The first notice was issued to Centaurus Mall management on March 7, 2014, the second on October 25, 2019, then on December 28, 2020, then again on March 31, 2021. The penultimate notice was sent on October 11, 2021, and the sixth and final notice issued on November 23, 2022.

Despite repeated notices, Centaurus Mall management did not comply, and the building was sealed.

Express Tribune
 
Punjab caretaker CM removes ‘PTI’s blue-eyed’ Lahore CCPO
Bilal Siddique Kamyana replaces Ghulam Mehmood Dogar as Lahore’s top cop

In a first key appointment on the first day of caretaker chief minister of Punjab, Bilal Siddique Kamyana, a senior police officer praised by the PML-N but dreaded by PTI for crushing its long march to Islamabad in May last year has been appointed as CCPO Lahore.

The incumbent 'PTI’s blue-eyed officer' Ghulam Mehmood Dogar has been asked to report to Services and General Administration Department.

Senior police officer Kamyana was not on good terms with the PTI as he is considered close to PML-N.

He became even more despised figure for PTI due to his role in crackdown against PTI activists during its long march to Islamabad in May last year.

Hamza Shahbaz as the chief minister of Punjab made the first appointment of Bilal Siddique Kamyana in the Punjab police.

New caretaker chief minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi on his first day as the provincial chief executive also picked him as the CCPO Lahore.

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https://tribune.com.pk/story/2397402/punjab-caretaker-cm-removes-ptis-blue-eyed-lahore-ccpo
 
Qureshi, Fawad booked for inciting hate against state institutions
PTI leader Shibli Faraz, 150 others booked in separate case for allegedly giving false statement about Imran Khan's presence at Zaman Park

In another setback to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), its Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry were booked in a case for allegedly inciting hatred among the public against state institutions.

The case was lodged on behalf of Race Course Police Station Sub-inspector Mohammad Waseem under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 149 (offence committed in prosecution of common object by members of unlawful assembly guilty), 153 (provocation with intent to cause riot if rioting), 290 (punishment for public nuisance), 291 (continuance of nuisance after injunction to discontinue), 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).

As per the text of the FIR, PTI leaders Qureshi and Fawad held a press conference in Zaman Park on March 5, which resulted in blockage of Canal Road. It stated that Fawad made a provocative speech and incited the public against the government and state institutions.

Fawad committed an offence by obstructing transit on a main artery of the city and levelled murder plot allegations against the state institutions, the FIR read.

Shibli Faraz, 150 others booked for interfering in state affairs
Separately, PTI leader Shibli Faraz was booked in a case for allegedly giving a false statement about Khan's presence at Zaman Park residence and interfaring in state affairs.

The case was lodged by the Islamabad police who visited PTI Chairman Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence in Lahore to serve the arrest warrant of the deposed prime minister issued by an Islamabad court in the Toshakhana case.

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Yasmin Rashid ‘evades’ arrest
Police say they have not arrested the PTI leader

In an unexpected development, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Yasmin Rashid claimed on Thursday that she evaded the police arrest by locking herself in the car.

“Police have surrounded me for arrest,” she claimed.

According to Geo News, the former Punjab health minister’s car was surrounded by the law enforcement agency near the Shadman Park underpass in Lahore while she was on her to the clinic.

The PTI leader further claimed that the police had asked her to come out of the car and go with them. She added that women police also asked her to come with them, however, the ex-provincial minister refused.

According to Dr Rashid, she told the police that a first information report (FIR) was registered against her in the Ali Bilal case but she is on bail.

Later, the PTI leader said that the police had let her go and she was at her clinic now.

However, the police have said that they had not arrested the PTI leader.

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