Faisal Sheikh
RAWALPINDI: Former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
announced that he would launch an amnesty mission tomorrow (Monday) for
the innocent people incarcerated in connection with the May 9 incidents.
Taking to X (formerly known as Twitter), the head of Awami Muslim League
said it is mission of his life to seek pardon for the people imprisoned
on charges of their involvement in the May 9 incidents. He thanked the
entire nation which prayed for his release.
“I don’t know where I was imprisoned, however, he was not hurt during
the confinement.”
He said that he was grateful to the entire nation and the mothers,
sisters, and daughters through whose prayers he had been released after
40 days. “I do not know at which place I spent the ‘chilla’, but I was
not hurt during the time,” he said.
He said he would seek pardon for the people those are innocent,
confined, hiding or involved in the May 9 incidents.
“Now the mission of my life is to seek amnesty for all those who
committed a mistake on May 9 and have been in hiding since then, and for
all those innocent people who have been in jails since May 9,” he added.
He appealed masses to lend him support for the amnesty of those who
committed the mistake on May 9. I am going to launch this mission by
tomorrow, the former minister announced.
