Regional police officers (RPOs) in Punjab have been instructed by the provincial police chief Dr Usman Anwar to nominate PTI chief Imran Khan in all the cases lodged across the province in the wake of the May 9 attacks on military installations, by adding Section 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to those FIRs.
This instruction was related to all those cases which had been registered under section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against PTI leaders, workers and supporters allegedly involved in attacks on military installations.
Most of the FIRs, 14, were registered in Lahore, 13 in Rawalpindi region, five in Faisalabad region, and four each in the Multan, Sargodha and Mianwali districts under the anti-terrorism law and other charges.
