PTI supporters have been protesting against the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan. Imran Khan was arrested in a corruption case yesterday by Rangers.

According to journalist Iftikhar Firdous of The Khorasan Diaries, the protesters torched Edhi ambulance and police van. The protesters also opened fire towards the Balahisar Fort, which is the headquarters of the Frontier Corps —North, and they vandalised nearby shops and broke into Radio Pakistan building. 

He said: “4 bodies and 27 injured have been received at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar.”

He added the police have arrested 30 people so far.

4 bodies and 27 injured have been received at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar. Some of them have been identified and other have not. The situation on the road is now becoming more violent. More than 30 arrests have also been made. #Peshawar

— Iftikhar Firdous (@IftikharFirdous) May 10, 2023

Earlier, police had also opened fire at protesters in Quetta, killing one person.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab government have requested deployment of army to control the situation.

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Faisal Khan shot dead US citizen Tahir Ahmad Naseem, who was in jail since 2018 after he was accused of blasphemy, in 2020 in a courtroom in Peshawar. Faisal Khan was stated to be of 17-year-old at the time of the incident.

Dawn reported that an anti-terrorism court judge Dr Aamir Nazir ordered the transfer of the case to the district judge so that the accused could be tried under the Juvenile Justice System Act, 2018.

The transfer was ordered in the light of a recent Peshawar High Court (PHC) judgement, stating that a juvenile accused charged with a terrorism-related offence should be tried by a juvenile court, and not by an anti-terrorism court.

Along with the prime accused, a cleric Wasiullah and a junior lawyer Tufail Zia are co-accused in the case.

In his confessional statement, Wasiullah had said that he he had motivated the prime accused to kill Tahir Ahmad Naseem.

The lawyer Tufail Zia is accused of taking a pistol inside the Judicial Complex before handing it over to the alleged killer.

The teen got through three security checkpoints on his way into a courtroom in Peshawar on July 29, pulled out a pistol and fired multiple shots into Naseem, 57, at a bail hearing.

After the killing, thousands rallied in support of Khan. Delegations of well-wishers – lawyers, clerics, local politicians – visited the Khan family home in Peshawar to congratulate the family. He has received messages of support from the Pakistani Taliban, Reuters had reported.

According to the United States Department of State, Naseem had been lured to Pakistan from his home in Illinois by individuals who then used Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to entrap him.

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The university issued a notification in this regard, making it mandatory for all students to wear knee-length kurtas, shalwars, and white dupattas and banning western wear.

The notification said the students would be fined Rs 1,000 in case of non-compliance, reported Express Tribune. 

Earlier, Gomal University in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, directed women students to “be careful and limit themselves just in their classrooms”.

According to a notification issued by the university, “Gatherings/ Coupling (Male and Female) is totally Banned in any ground, roads, etc, beyond the premises of departments.”

The notification also advised women students to be “careful and limit themselves just in their classrooms and department Common rooms”.

It also wanted students of strict action in case of non-compliance.

Many social media users condemned the notification as they were of the view that universities must be stopped by law to impose any dress code on women and any restrictions on their fundamental human rights.

Last year, a public university for women in Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, barred students from using smartphones while attending the varsity.

The administration noted that extensive use of social media applications affects the performance of the students, besides having a bad effect on their behaviour.

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