Imran Khan's ally arrested for accusing Zardari of plotting to kill former premier
The Hindu
Mr. Zardari rejected the allegations and also sent a legal notice to Mr. Khan.
Pakistani police on Thursday arrested former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed from his home for accusing ex-president Asif Ali Zardari of plotting to kill former prime minister Imran Khan.
An ally of Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, Mr. Ahmed is the chief of Awami Muslim League (AML).
Confirming the incident, his nephew Sheikh Rashid Shafique said that the AML chief was arrested from his home in a private housing society in Islamabad.
He was arrested by Islamabad police in the early hours of Thursday in connection with remarks he made against former president Zardari, accusing him of hatching a "murder plot to eliminate PTI chief Imran Khan".
He was arrested on a police complaint filed by Raja Inayat-ur-Rehman, a vice president of PPP Rawalpindi Division, wherein he said that the AML chief, in a television interview on January 27, alleged that Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Zardari got the assistance of some terrorists to kill Mr. Khan.
Mr. Khan also in a television address on January 27 had alleged that Mr. Zardari was behind a fresh assassination plot — a "plan C" — and a terror group had been engaged for the purpose. He offered no evidence to back up his accusation.
Mr. Sheikh Rashid in fact had repeated what Mr. Imran Khan had said in his television address.