Rana Shaukat, a long-time friend of Rana Sanaullah, joins PTI

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) downed another important wicket of the Muslim League (N) when a long-time friend of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah from Faisalabad Rana Shaukat joined the PTI.

Rana, who is an eminent politician and merchant trader of Sarafa Market from Faisalabad, called PTI Chairman Imran Khan in Islamabad on Monday and formally announced to join the PTI.

Rana Shaukat expressed his full confidence in the leadership of Imran Khan.

Central Information Secretary Farrukh Habib was also present on the occasion.

Earlier, a local court once again issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday but a team of the Punjab Anti-corruption Establishment (ACE), which was tasked with the arrest of the interior minister, returned empty-handed due to the ‘non-cooperation’ from Islamabad police.

According to the details, the anti-corruption team could not arrest Rana Sana in the cheating case.

Following the court orders, the anti-corruption team reached the Secretariat police station and met the SHO and sought compliance with the arrest orders of Rana Sanaullah. The court order and arrest warrant were also handed over to the station head officer

However, due to non-compliance with the arrest warrant, the anti-corruption team returned empty-handed. The arrival of the anti-corruption team was also not mentioned in the register.

The anti-corruption team said that they reached the Secretariat police station for compliance of the court orders, but they failed in doing so. On the other hand, the SHO said that the warrant has been received and updates will be shared in this regard, later.

Earlier in the day, a senior civil judge in Rawalpindi, Ghulam Akbar ordered to arrest and produce Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah before the court in fraud case, after an attempt to arrest the interior minister went in vain on Saturday.