Anti-Terrorism Court, which acquitted PTI’s Shah Mehmood Qureshi, awarded 10 years imprisonment each to PTI’s lawmakers, including former governor Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Ijaz Ch, Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed, in two different cases registered against them in response to May 9 riots.

The ATC judge also awarded 5 years imprisonment each to PTI’s Alia Hamza and PTI’s social activist Sanam Javed.

Earlier, the ATC court had reserved decisions after hearing in detail the arguments from both sides at Kot Lakhpat jail on two cases, ‘Shadman police station attack and burning of police vehicles near Jinnah House, at Kot Lakhpat jail.

The accused side’s counsel argued that no concrete evidence is available to establish any link of the accused persons with the charges levelled in the FIR

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