PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry was given a 14-day judicial remand by an Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday in connection with an allegation of inciting violence against a constitutional institution.
After Fawad was detained, the judge on Wednesday night gave police a two-day first remand.
The former minister of communication was detained after an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officer filed a first information report (FIR) against him at the Kohsar police station in Islamabad for allegedly “threaten[ing]]” the members of the electoral body and their families.
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In the judge Raja Waqas Ahmed’s courtroom today, the ECP’s request for an extension of Fawad’s remand was heard.
