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imran among pti lEadErs BooKEd for ‘attacKing policE’ in l ahorE
LAHore s ta f f R e p o R t senior leaders of pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (pTI), including chairman Imran Khan, have been charged for allegedly attacking police and using foul language against security institutions in Lahore
The incident took place after Section 144 was imposed to suspend public gatherings in the provincial capital as per the first information report (FIr) filed by a deputy superintendent of police (DSp) in raiwand a group of around 300400 people committed acts of violence in the city and hurled abuse at state institutions
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The FIr which was lodged today cites
Section 7 of the anti-Terrorism act (aTa) and Sections 147 149 353 186 302 324 188 427 290 291 and 109 of the pakistan penal Code (ppC)
Furthermore the complaint alleges that party workers were incited to abuse the institutions by former prime minister Khan Hassan niazi Hammad azhar Mian Mahmood ur-rasheed Farrukh Habib Fawad Chaudhry, and ejaz Chaudhry according to the FIr, the violent mob threw stones and attacked police with wooden sticks, resulting in injuries to 13 police personnel, while six pTI workers were also hurt due to violence perpetrated by their own party members responding to the development Chaudhry said he had been in Islamabad for
sethi eyes hBl psl expansion with two new teams. But where does that leave existing franchises?
“There needs to be a serious conversation that actually addresses the league model problem” says atif rana, owner of the Lahore Qalandars His team has been on the forefront of the effort to promote a regional revenue league model “If we manage to get this system in place there is no league in the world that we cannot compete with over the years as the security situation has improved and the tournament has spread all over pakistan this was all bound to happen However there are still some issues says osman Sammiuddin, senior editor at eSpn Cricinfo For starters, the security situation is changing again before our very eyes Then again, what are you going to do about a team like Quetta? You re definitely not going to be playing there for a very long time or hosting international players Do Quetta and Karachi then share the revenue for national Stadium? Will Salman Iqbal agree to that? These are all problems that need to be thought about These are all problems that need to be thought about all in all it is a good way to run the league but it will be a while before that happens The pCB is an old institution that does not like to cede control; they have a very purani sarkari soch With Sethi in charge, he may feel even more strongly about this since he has been here from the beginning
However, Sammiuddin agrees that there need to be more teams in the tournament “You’re a nation of 220 million people You had the Qea trophy where Imran Khan forced the six team system to become a thing and you want quality but you need way more teams and in the pSL especially you need more competition and more liveliness and commercially I don t think it should be an issue to sell the rights to a team for a city like say Faisalabad There should ideally be two more teams coming in d i G i ta L r i G H t s
Meanwhile, commenting further on how he was planning to expand the pSL, Sethi said that the future of the tournament was going to be deeply linked with how the digital broadcasting rights would be managed “The Sale of Digital rights is the future model for financial growth We are on it If DTH comes to pakistan, pSL will fly
If we are able to play some matches in the uSa it would be a great leap for cricket ” he says previous regimes had the wrong perspective
They thought that for psl to be successful foreign players had to play before domestic audiences in local stadiums But that wasn t possible because foreign players were not ready to come to pakistan But i reasoned that tv and digital eyeballs mattered not full house in local stadiums Global Broadcast rights brought in money not gate receipts So I launched psl in dubai and it was a huge financial success, paving the way for it to be gradually branded as a pakistani product which brought international cricket back to pakistan ” the past two days, occupied with the preparation of a petition that is scheduled to be heard later today
I have been charged with vandalism in Lahore Guess what kind of officers have been posted by General Dyer Mohsin naqvi [sic] in Lahore he tweeted referring to reginald Dyer who as a British army officer was responsible for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in amritsar s e c t i o n 144 L i F t e d: Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court (LHC) was informed by the caretaker government of punjab that the ban on public gatherings imposed in the provincial capital had been lifted
The administration of Mohsin naqvi had imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal procedure (CrpC) 1898 in the provincial capital to avoid any untoward incident owing to multiple public gatherings that were planned in the city These included the aurat March on International Women’s Day and the scheduled pTI rally The opposition party had challenged the move in the court claiming that the provincial authorities were obstructing the election process During the hearing, punjab’s top law officer informed the court the government had lifted Section 144 due to security threats He said that “yesterday was a sensitive day so the implementation of Section 144 was the right step ” Following this announcement the court disposed of pTI leader azhar s petition
