{"id":143,"date":"2026-01-28T13:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:31:10","slug":"islamabad-court-issues-non-bailable-arrest-warrant-for-kp-cm-sohail-afridi-in-cybercrime-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad court issues non-bailable arrest warrant for KP CM Sohail Afridi in cybercrime case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/01\/28171714e019a72.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Wednesday in a case wherein he has been accused of making misleading statements against state institutions and tarnishing their reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been registered with the National Cyber Crime Investigation Authority (NCCIA) under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca).<\/p>\n<p>Senior Civil Judge Abbas Shah presided over the case\u2019s proceedings and observed that the KP chief minister had failed to appear before the court despite being summoned.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, he ordered the Afridi\u2019s arrest and directed relevant authorities to produce him before the court.<\/p>\n<p>The case\u2019s hearing was adjourned till February 10.<\/p>\n<p>The court had<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1965008\"> issued a non-bailable arrest warrant<\/a> for Afridi in the case at a previous hearing on January 4 as well over his repeated absences.<\/p>\n<p>During that hearing, Judge Shah had observed that the CM repeatedly ignored summons and remained absent from proceedings without any lawful justification.<\/p>\n<p>The court had noted that despite being given multiple opportunities to present himself before the court and respond to the allegations, the CM failed to comply with judicial directions.<\/p>\n<p>The court had taken a serious view of Afridi\u2019s persistent non-appearance and termed it a deliberate attempt to evade the legal process.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1969535\/islamabad-court-issues-non-bailable-arrest-warrant-for-kp-cm-sohail-afridi-in-cybercrime-case\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Wednesday in a case wherein he has been accused&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}