President Arif Alvi and other senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership have been acquitted in the 2014 Parliament House attack case.

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An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday announced the verdict, which was reserved on February 17.

Other senior PTI leaders, who were exonerated in the case, are Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood and Provincial Minister Shaukat Yousufzai.

President Alvi who was nominated in the 2014 Parliament House attack appeared before the ATC for proceedings despite having immunity under the Constitution of Pakistan.

The president during his appearance had said that the Constitution of Pakistan gives him immunity, however, he wanted to waive it to bring all of them equal before the law.

It is pertinent to mention here that Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was also nominated in the case, was acquitted by the ATC in October 2020.

On Sept 1, 2014, hundreds of protesters belonging to the PTI and PAT stormed the Parliament House and PTV headquarters and forced its staff to take two of the state broadcaster’s flagship channels — PTV News and PTV World — off the air.

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The protesters were also charged with attacking government properties including the Parliament House building.