Excise Department on Friday raided the residences of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader and former National Assembly (NA) Speaker Asad Qaiser and former education minister Shahram Tarakai. According to details, teams of Excise Department conduced separate raids on houses of Asad Qaiser and Shahram Tarakai in different localities of Swabi. During raids, two vehicles were taken into custody from residence of former Speaker NA while two non-custom paid and unregistered vehicles were recovered from house of former education minister.

The Excise officials said that no one were present at house during raids therefore no arrest could be made. They said that the vehicles worth millions of rupees have been taken into custody and investigations were kicked off. In a statement, Asad Qaiser said that police illegally raided his house in Swabi despite the bail in all the fake FIRs from the concerned courts. Shahram Tarakai said that police that an illegal raid was carried out by the police at his house in Swabi and were forcibly taken away two vehicles. They were of the view that the sanctity of boundary wall was being violated, which was a violation of basic human rights and Pakhtun traditions.  “Our struggle will continue until the restoration of true democracy rule of law and supremacy of constitution. Inshallah,” they vowed.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP