Ali Amin Gandapur, a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was granted a one-day physical remand on Sunday by a local court in Islamabad in relation to a terrorist and sedition case.
The court ordered the police to appear on his behalf in an ATC the next day. Gandapur was initially detained by Dera Ismail Khan police on Thursday as a result of numerous cases that Islamabad and Punjab Police had filed against him. Now Islamabad Court has granted police one-day remand of Ali Amin Gandapur.
A case against him was afterwards filed at the Golra Police Station in the federal capital, and he was later turned over to the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Police.
According to the audio file associated with the case, the prosecution said during the court that Gandapur intended to assault Islamabad and referenced gathering weapons to fight the police. All of the offences included in the FIR, according to the prosecutor, were serious and not subject to bail. The attorney for Gandapur stated that because this case involved terrorism, his client should not have been brought before this court, and he asked to have Gandapur removed from the case.
The court authorized Gandapur’s physical detention for just one day and ordered the police to bring him before an ATC the next day.
Ali Amin Khan Gandapur is a Pakistani politician who was the former Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, from 5 October 2018 to 10 April 2022. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till January 2023.
Previously, he was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2013 to 2018 and served as Provincial Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for Revenue for the same period of time. He contested his first election in 2013 for PK 94 Dera Ismail Khan and won and later on in 2018.
He contested 2 seats PK-97 Dera Ismail Khan City 1 and NA-38 and won both seats. He kept the national assembly seat and his brother Sardar Faisal Amin Khan Gandapur is the MPA of PK-97 Dera Ismail Khan City 1.
