GILGIT: The Hunza police arrested Mir Saleem Khan, a PML-N leader and former member of GBLA, on Friday night and shifted him to the airport police station in Gilgit, after his mother submitted a complaint with the Aliabad police complaining that she and her husband, GB Governor Mir Gazanfar Ali Khan, were facing life threats from their son over a property dispute.

The FIR against Mir Saleem was registered under sections 506, 500, 406 of PPC.

An official of Gilgit police told Dawn that Mir Saleem had been deported to Islamabad from Gilgit on Saturday under an agreement. Mahboob Khayam, a close associate of Mir Saleem, who was also arrested in Hunza, but was released later, told Dawn that the conspiracy against Mir Saleem was hatched by her mother, Rani Atiqa.

He said the woman and her husband wanted to sideline their two sons, Mir Saleem and Mir Shehryar Khan, in a bid to facilitate their third son, Mir Salman Khan.

Mr Khayam alleged that GB chief minister was also behind the conspiracy.

In last weekof March, Mir Saleem was arrested by Islamabad police on an FIR lodged by his father accusing him and another son, Shahayar Khan, of occupying his home in the capital city.

Mir Ghazanfar had claimed in the FIR that he had been the sole owner of a house in F-6/2, Islamabad, since 1990 in which he lived along with his family till Dec 2016. He said he had got separated from his two sons because of their uncalled-for behaviour.

Islamabad police had sent Mir Saleem Khan to Adiala Jail on a physical remand, however, in first week of April he was released on bail.

On April 10, GB Chief Court had disqualified Mir Saleem in a bank loan scam.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2018