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Achakzai says house raided for 'seeking parliament's supremacy'
Updated Mar 04, 14:00Speaking during the newly convened session of the 16th National Assembly, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, head of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) and presidential candidate, said his house was raided for seeking to uphold the supremacy of Parliament.
The PkMAP chief took the floor after PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto requested the NA speaker to allow Achakzai to address the session before him.
The PkMAP alleged on Sunday that the police raided the house of its party chief and presidential candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai without justification and arrested his personal guard.
Addressing a press conference at the party's central secretariat in Quetta, PkMAP Central Secretary General Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal said that a heavy police contingent raided the house of the party chief “without any magistrate" in violation of the people’s right to privacy, according to a BBC report.
He added that the police also arrested a personal guard of Achakzai’s, who was in possession of a licensed weapon. The PkMAP leader alleged that the raid came after Achakzai exposed rigging in the recent elections and the people responsible for it in a National Assembly session.