PTI leaders Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Jamshed Cheema, and his wife Musarrat Cheema have been placed under house arrest for 15 days under MPO section 3.
The Rawalpindi commissioner issued house arrest orders for the PTI leaders.
Former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Musarrat Cheema, and Jamshed Cheema have been placed under house arrest for 15 days.
It should be noted that Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Musarrat Jamshed Cheema were apprehended outside Adiala Jail on Tuesday after the IHC had ordered their release.
“I am not leaving the party. I am with the party, and I will stay with the party,” Mr. Qureshi was quoted as saying in the statement.
Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, presiding over the case at the IHC imposed a conditional release for Mr Qureshi, requiring the submission of an affidavit by his legal representatives.
Also read: Shah Mahmood Qureshi arrested amid protests
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi is a Pakistani politician who served as the 29th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022. He previously held the post from 2008 to 2011.
He had been a member of the National Assembly from August 2018 till January 2023. He is the vice chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party since December 2011. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to May 2018.
Born in Multan, Punjab, Qureshi studied at Aitchison College and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Forman Christian College and a Master of Arts degree from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
He remained a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab for nine years from 1985 to 1993 and served in the provincial cabinet in various positions between 1988 and 1993. He served as the minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs in the federal cabinet from 1993 to 1996 and later as the Mayor of Multan from 2000 to 2002.
