ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told his fellow members in the National Assembly on Tuesday that he had directed the Rangers Sindh chief not to arrest lawmakers, according to local media sources.
Nisar said Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani had informed him that some lawmakers were facing criminal charges and that they could be arrested by the paramilitary force, sources further added.
“I have stopped the director general of Rangers from arresting the lawmakers,” said the minister. “They [the Rangers] can only file cases against them on concrete evidences, that too after consulting with me.”
He told the house that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s claims regarding party activists going missing and their extrajudicial killings allegedly at the hands of the Rangers officials were “false and misleading”.
