Sheikh Rashid’s Lal Haveli ‘completely sealed’. Lal Haveli, the ancestral home of Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, the leader of the Awami Muslim League (AML) and a former interior minister, was sealed early on Monday.
In a tweet, Rashid said that the residence was “completely sealed in the dark of the night” by the “bloodthirsty, who first shed blood of the government and now of Lal Haveli”.
“The Rangers and FC [Frontier Corps] were asked for help but they refused. The Lal Haveli was then sealed with the help of FIA [Federal Investigation Agency] and police,” he claimed.
رات کےاندھیرے میں حکومت پرشب خون مارنےوالوں نےلال حویلی پرشب خون مارا ہے5مرلہ سےکم لال حویلی ہماری ذاتی ملکیت ہےاورعوامی خدمت کا مرکزی سیکریٹیریٹ ہےانھوں نےرینجرزاورFCسےمدد مانگی انھوں نےانکار کردیاپھرFIAاورپولیس کی مدد سےلال حویلی کوسیل کردیا۔5 بجے لال حویلی پریس کانفرنس کروں گا
— Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (@ShkhRasheed) January 30, 2023
He added that the Lal Haveli, a house that is less than five marlas in size, is both his personal property and the administrative centre for the public service.
He declared that he will discuss the matter at a news conference at his ancestral home today at 5 o’clock. While the site was being sealed, a sizable presence of police and district administration personnel was there.
The endowment department has installed formal locks on all of its doors and will begin additional legal proceedings tomorrow.
The administrator of the Department of Abandoned Waqf Properties, Asif Mehmood, stated that the department has written to the authorities to validate the registry of one unit of Rashid’s Rawalpindi home and sealed seven properties, including Lal Haveli.
He argued that although Lal Haveli is on government property, it has long been “illegally occupied”. Lawyers have been instructed to write a case and file a plea within the next two hours after the former minister opted to contest the decision at the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
IHC Senior Judge Justice Sadaqat Ali Khan will hear the petition asking for Lal Haveli’s de-sealing. The AML leader’s attorney, Sardar Abdul Raziq, told the media that he had gotten video and pictures documenting the sealing of Lal Haveli.
Sheikh Rashid’s Lal Haveli ‘completely sealed’. A civil court in Rawalpindi had dismissed Sheikh Rashid’s appeal the day before, which had contested the evacuation orders for Lal Haveli.
Judge Naveed Akhtar postponed the case until February 15 after stating that the court could not prevent any department from acting in accordance with the law.
In his plea, the AML leader claimed that since the lawsuit involving the property was already in court, the evacuation of Lal Haveli amounted to political victimisation.
Rashid pleaded for the Evacuee Trust Property Board to avoid acting in a way that, in his words, was “settling the score against him.”
