The mystery of the sudden disappearance of Ali Amin Gandapur, the Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, is deepening.
Home Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Sunday that he is not in the custody of any federal agency. Gandapur had gone missing from his official residence in the national capital Islamabad on Saturday evening.
He had gone to rest at the official residence after leading his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party’s protest march from the province to Islamabad. Since then nothing is known about him.
Mohsin Naqvi said that the government has no information about the whereabouts of the Chief Minister. He claimed that he had left before the police reached there.
“I can confirm that he is not in the custody of any government agency,” Naqvi told reporters. The minister said that the police are searching for the Chief Minister, who is said to be hiding at an unknown place.
He said, ‘Police have also raided some places, but they were not found.’ The Home Minister’s claim has deepened the mystery of Gandapur’s sudden disappearance.
Chief Minister has no contact with his family
According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government spokesperson Mohammad Ali Saif, the provincial government and the chief minister’s family are unable to contact him.
According to Geo News report, the provincial government approached the Peshawar High Court on Sunday in connection with Gandapur’s disappearance.
On the other hand, the Government of Pakistan banned the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a political party advocating the rights of the ethnic Pashtun community, calling it a threat to national security.
“The Union Government has reasons to believe that PTM is engaged in certain activities prejudicial to the peace and security of the country,” the Home Ministry said in the notification.
The government lists PTM as a banned organization in the First Schedule.
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