An additional and sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday granted the police two-day physical remand of Awami Muslim League (AML) chief and former interior minister Shiekh Rashid. The former minister was shifted to the police station soon after Judicial Magistrate Omar Shabbir announced the reserved decision.
Rashid was produced in the local court hours after he was arrested by Islamabad police.
Earlier in the day, his nephew Sheikh Raashid Shafique confirmed the arrest in an interview with a private news channel and said that the AML leader was arrested in a late-night raid from his residence in a private housing society in the federal capital.
The senior politician was arrested in connection to a complaint filed by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Rawalpindi Vice President Raja Inayat Ur Rehman against Sheikh Rashid in Islamabad's Aabpara Police Station for alleging that PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was hatching a plot to assassinate Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.

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