16 January 2014 - 20:30
Acquitted Shia Activist Rearrested in Pakistan

A leader of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has been rearrested by the police 8 days after his acquittal in a false murder case.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) A leader of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has been rearrested by the police 8 days after his acquittal in a false murder case.Ahsanullah Khan, secretary general of the MWM Teshil Darya Khan chapter, was rearrested 8 days after his release on Thursday night.Ashanullah Khan who contested election to National Assembly from NA-73 Bhakkar was detained in the jail where he had to spend 5 months behind the bars.Finally Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had acquitted him 8 days ago. News of his re-arrest has evoked stiff protest from the Shiites who said that pro-terrorists government of Punjab has directed the biased and anti-Shia police administration of Bhakkar district to implicate the innocent and peace-loving Shiites in false case so that they could be subdued and tamed in favour of the PMLN-led government./149