RAWALPINDI: Awami Muslim League (AML) chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Thursday asked journalists not to try to force him say something that could land him into a Chila (meditation).
He was talking to media outside the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench after appearing before a judge in connection with his petition against inclusion of his name in the May 9 arson attack cases.
The veteran politician grom Rawalpindi said he had already returned from a 40 days’ chilla and didn’t want to go yo chilla again.
He was referring to his arrest by agencies in September this year after which he remained missing for over a month. Upon his return, he told a TV channel that he had gone on a 40-day chilla.
The former ally of jailed ex-prime minister and PTI chief Imran Khan said the case registered against him was illegal as he was out of the country on May 9.
Today, when he appeared in the court of Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz along with his lawyer Sardar Abdul Razzaq, thr police submitted an incomplete chalan of the case.
The judge adjourned till one week the hearing with a direction to the police to submit a complete challan on the next hearing.
In reply to a question, Sheikh Rashid said that there were plenty of relief for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. A person who considers other people as foolish is himself a big foolish, he added.
In response to another question, the AML chief said Imran’s move to name Gohar Ali Khan as chairman of the PTI showed that the party would be allotted the election symbol of ‘Bat’.
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