Pakistan lawmaker released on bail after being pardoned for religious comment

The lawmaker had made a religious comment against Prime Minister Imran Khan's special assistant but was later released on bail.

A lawmaker of Pakistan's ruling party was on Wednesday released on bail after he was pardoned by Prime Minister Imran Khan's special assistant for calling him a Qadiani, a member of the minority Ahmadi community. Lahore Police on July 27 arrested Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmaker Nazir Chohan, who is part of the party's estranged Jahangir Tareen group, for calling Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Special Assistant to the prime minister on Accountability and Interior, as a Qadiani.