An anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced 47 <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/earthquake-in-pakistan-earthquake-of-magnitude-43-hits-pakistan-national-center-for-seismology-23619387" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Pakistan</a> Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders and supporters to 10 years imprisonment and a PKR 5,00,000 fine each in absentia for vandalism and violence during the May 9, 2023, protest.
The countrywide protest was launched by workers and leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) following the arrest of former premier and party founder Imran Khan in Islamabad.
The PTI supporters were charged with arson, siege, vandalism, attacks on <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/two-college-girls-die-by-suicide-in-gujarat-found-in-temple-bathroom-23619792" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">police</a>, and damaging government property, specifically in connection with attacks on the GHQ gate, Hamza Camp, the Army Museum, and Sixth Road Metro Station.&nbsp;
The May 9 GHQ attack case is part of a broader prosecution in which a total of 118 accused, including PTI founder Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, were also indicted, with charges formally framed against all 118 in December 2024. Khan is currently in Adiala Jail, facing multiple cases which were instituted against him after his <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/us-russia-oil-waiver-india-never-needed-permission-to-buy-russian-oil-centre-hits-back-at-congress-23619791" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">government</a> was removed in April 2022.
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