Pakistan’s police want to conduct search operations at the residence of Imran Khan, a former prime minister of the country and chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).
The Islamabad police have asked their high command to issue a warrant to conduct the operation at Imran’s Banigala residence in connection with the case filed his aide Dr Shahbaz Gill, according to Dawn.
The Dawn report said a satellite phone and a weapon recovered from the apartment allotted to Mr Gill at Parliament Lodges were sent for forensic examination.
The police have made a list of PTI leaders who were at the house on Aug 8 and the media persons who had contacted the leaders.
The police claimed that Mr Gill appeared on the 4pm news bulletin of ARYNews through a landline at the former prime minister’s residence.
The list was prepared through geofencing and call data records of the people present there, senior police officers told Dawn, adding that the purpose was to ‘nominate them in the case as conspirators’.
Mr Khan’s house and a landline installed there were also used in the crime and legal proceedings were being initiated over it, they added.
“A report on the new developments in the case has been sent to senior officers concerned for the nod to initiate further legal proceedings.”
After the approval, search warrants will be issued for the residence and the arrest of alleged conspirators, they added.
