A terrorism case has been registered against Mufti Abrar Ahmed, the secretary to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the party has said. The case also names more than 200 unidentified JUI-F workers, according to the party's spokesperson.

The announcement, made in Islamabad on Wednesday, adds a fresh criminal case to the running confrontation between the religious political party and the authorities. The report did not disclose the police station where the case was registered, the first information report (FIR) number, or whether any arrests have been made.

The allegations and the party's response

According to the party, the case alleges that Ahmed and JUI-F workers assaulted police. The JUI-F spokesperson rejected that account outright, calling the accusations false. The party said that using criminal cases to settle political disputes runs counter to democratic principles.

The allegations have not been tested in court, and no conviction has followed from them. Until a court examines the evidence, the claims remain exactly that: allegations made in a police case, denied by the party named in it.

Ahmed is a close aide of Fazlur Rehman and has served as his spokesperson in the past. The party has not said what legal steps it plans to take in response to the case, or whether it will challenge it in court.

A second front: NAB summons for Asad Mahmood

Separately, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has issued another summons to Asad Mahmood, the son of Fazlur Rehman, as part of an inquiry into alleged illegal appointments at the Pakistan Post Office Department.

Mahmood served as the federal minister for communications and postal services from 2022 to 2023. He was asked to appear before NAB on 10 November 2026. He did not attend, instead submitting a written reply through his lawyer. NAB deemed that response unsatisfactory and has now ordered him to appear in person on 13 November at 11am.

The notice warned that failure to comply could result in action under Section 31 of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, the provision that deals with non-compliance with NAB's orders. The inquiry concerns alleged appointments involving officers and other staff at the postal department.

Mahmood has faced scrutiny on this front before. He was previously declared a deliberate defaulter and absconder in a Federal Investigation Agency inquiry into alleged illegal recruitment, after missing a summons in that case.

Why this matters

The two developments land together, and the party plainly sees them as connected. Its public position is that the state is reaching for criminal and accountability cases against its leadership and its workers, rather than engaging with it politically.

For the authorities, the cases are presented as ordinary law enforcement: a terrorism case arising from an alleged assault on police, and an accountability inquiry into appointments made while Mahmood held ministerial office. Neither side has yet produced the underlying documents in public, so the competing accounts cannot be independently weighed at this stage.

What happens next will turn on the paperwork. If the terrorism case proceeds, a court will decide whether the evidence supports the charges against Ahmed and the unnamed workers. If Mahmood appears before NAB on 13 November, the inquiry will move to its next stage; if he does not, the bureau has signalled it may act against him.

Daily Byte will follow both cases as they develop.