Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad said on Thursday that silence was the best policy in the current circumstances. Talking to the media outside a court here, where he had gone in connection with the hearing of a case against him, he said it was his opinion that one should deal with the situation by remaining calm and tightlipped.
Rasheed said he had accepted his defeat in the February 8 general elections. Replying to a question about the threatening letters received by the high courts and the Supreme Court (SC) judges, the former interior minister said it was a sensitive matter. “It is better not to talk much about it,” he added. He further said he had no idea what the present government was doing.
“I am taking rest these days. Because rest is the best,” he concluded. Court reserves verdict on Sh Rasheed’s acquittal plea Earlier, the court reserved its verdict on the acquittal pleas filed by former prime minister and ex-PTI chairman Imran Khan, PTI stalwart Shah MehmoodQureshi, Sheikh Rasheed and others in the cases registered against them at I-9 police station of Islamabad in connection with the PTI’s HaqeeqiAzadi March.
Judicial Magistrate Malik Imran reserved the decision which will be announced at next hearing on June 6. Sheikh Rasheed appeared in the court and filed a petition for his acquittal. Co-suspects, former PTI leaders SadaqatAbbasi.—INP
