An Anti-Terrorism Court on Tuesday acquitted Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s senior leadership in the 2014 Parliament House attack case.
The leadership acquitted in the case includes President Arif Alvi, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Labour and Culture Minister Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, Senator Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry.
Prime Minister Imran Khan was earlier acquitted in the case in 2020.
On Aug 31, 2014, PTI and PAT workers had marched towards Parliament House and Prime Minister House and clashed with police deployed on Constitution Avenue during their sit-in.
Police had invoked sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act against Imran and other leaders including the incumbent president Dr Arif Alvi, federal ministers Asad Umar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Shafqat Mahmood for inciting violence during the sit-in.
