Veteran politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi claimed police barged into his house and arrested his son-in-law and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate, Makhdoom Shahid Bahar Hashmi, grandson, Qasim Hashmi, and house servants late Wednesday. Javed Hashmi said 20 Punjab Police officials surrounded his \u2018Makhdoom Rasheed\u2019 residence at 1:00am and \u201cillegally entered without a warrant\u201d, violating the sanctity of the house. The PTI workers\u2019 convention was scheduled to be held at the residence where the raid took place, according to the senior politician. \u201cMy son-in-law Shahid Bahar Hashmi and grandson Qasim Hashmi have been taken into illegal custody,\u201d he wrote on his X account. All employees had been arrested, he added. He claimed that police entered his house by breaking the doors. Javed also apprised that PTI candidates and children of incarcerated PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Meher Bano Qureshi and Zain Qureshi, also had to attend the convention. Despite the raid, a close relative of the senior politician, Makhdoom Zahid Bahar Hashmi said the workers’ convention would take place at Hashmi’s residence and the candidate for NA-151 constituency Meher Bano would also attend it. Javed Hashmi withdraws in PTI\u2019s favour Javed had on January 22 announced stepping out of the election race and withdrawing in favour of PTI-backed Aamir Dogar, who will contest the February 8 polls from NA-149 constituency. \u201cI am throwing my political weight behind the Tehreek-e-Insaf and Imran Khan and withdrawing from the elections,\u201d Hashmi, who remained associated with the PTI and its arch-rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), had said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The seasoned politician was set to contest the polls from Multan\u2019s constituency as an independent candidate, and his withdrawal might help the PTI, whose candidates are also contesting on different symbols after they were deprived of their iconic \u2018bat\u2019 symbol. Hashmi had won twice from NA-149 in 2008 on the PML-N\u2019s ticket and in 2013 on the PTI ticket. However, after leaving the PTI, he relinquished the seat and in a by-election in 2014, Dogar defeated him. In 2018 as well, he had decided against running in elections. While he has close ties with the PML-N, Hashmi had said he stood with the incarcerated PTI founder as he and his party were facing testing times. \u201cWhen Imran Khan was the \u2018blue-eyed boy\u2019, I stood by Nawaz Sharif.\u201d The senior politician had said the cipher case against top PTI leaders \u2014 Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi \u2014 was baseless. \u201cI know Shah Mahmood Qureshi; he\u2019s not a traitor.\u201d Qureshi and Khan are behind bars in the cipher case, with the prosecution alleging that the PTI leaders used the secret document for political gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Veteran politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi claimed police barged into his house and arrested his son-in-law and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate, Makhdoom Shahid Bahar Hashmi, grandson,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13602,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}