Gilgit: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid was on Tuesday jailed for 34 years by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) for making threatening remarks against security agencies and officials. Sentencing.
The ATC also imposed a fine of Rs 600,000 on the former chief minister while directing the Inspector General of Police to arrest the culprit and send him to jail.
Additionally, the court also directed the director general of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to block the politician’s National Identity Card (NIC).
Khurshid was booked for threatening security agencies, GB Chief Secretary and Chief Election Commissioner with dire consequences during PTI’s power show on 26 May 2024.
A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against the PTI leader at the GBK City Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).
However, the former chief executive remained absconding and absent from the proceedings of the case.
Elected to the post in 2020, Khurshid was disqualified by the GB Chief Court in July 2023 for holding a fake degree under Article 62 and 63 of the Constitution of Pakistan.
The former chief minister had attached a fake degree from the University of London in his nomination papers, after which the Higher Education Commissioner (HEC) formally requested the university to verify his degree, which the official response declared to be fake. went Institution
The politician had joined PTI in 2018 and held the post of Divisional President of Diamar Astoor.
Most recently, according to Khurshid, The News, several cases were registered in connection with the party’s protest at Islamabad’s D Chowk in October.