{"id":5336,"date":"2026-07-09T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=5336"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:59:26","slug":"court-upholds-arrest-order-for-sohail-afridi-in-case-over-alleged-remarks-against-state-institutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=5336","title":{"rendered":"Court Upholds Arrest Order for Sohail Afridi in Case Over Alleged Remarks Against State Institutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD:<\/strong> A local court in Islamabad has upheld its order directing the arrest and production of <strong>Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi<\/strong> after he failed to appear in a case related to alleged remarks against state institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case was heard by <strong>Civil Judge Abbas Shah<\/strong>, where the chief minister did not appear before the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his absence, the court maintained the previously issued <strong>non-bailable arrest warrants<\/strong> and reaffirmed its order directing law enforcement authorities to arrest and produce him before the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing was later adjourned until <strong>July 21<\/strong> due to the unavailability of Judge Abbas Shah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to court records, the <strong>National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA)<\/strong> has registered a case against Sohail Afridi under the <strong>Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA)<\/strong> over allegations of making statements against state institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A local court in Islamabad has upheld its order directing the arrest and production of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi after he failed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/437718_3846608_updates-1.jpg",700,400,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=3\" rel=\"category\">Pakistan<\/a>","tag_info":"Pakistan","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5336\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}