Arrested PTI leaders, dozens workers shifted to Kot Lakhpat Jail
Pakistan
Some PTI workers vandalised police vehicle; Police arrested 500 to 700 workers, Fawad Chaudhry
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, General Secretary Asad Umar and more than 80 party workers offered voluntary arrests on the first day of the ‘Jail Bharo’ movement. The arrested leaders and workers have been shifted to the Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Yesterday, the PTI garlanded the leaders and workers during the ceremony at the party's provincial office and then all the leaders reached the Mall Road in the form of a rally from Jail Road to offer arrests. Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced the arrest outside the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) office instead of the Mall Road and as soon as he got down from the container the police took him into custody.
Later Asad Umar, Senator Azam Swati, former Punjab Governor Umar Sarfraz Cheema, Senator Waleed Iqbal, Muhammad Khan Madni and others offered the arrest. After the arrests by the leadership hundreds of workers themselves entered the prisoners' van and some boarded the roof, the activists who made voluntary arrests also shouted slogans during which the police also arrested party leader Zubair Khan Niazi.
Some PTI workers also vandalised the police vehicle following which the police lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against party leaders Ibad Farooq and Zubair Khan Niazi. The FIR stated that the two accused wrecked the police van, and threatened the police officials along with 80 others as well. Police also arrested PTI Chairman Imran Khan's focal person for social media Azhar Mashwani but later released him. Mashwani confirmed his release through his official Twitter account.
On the other hand PTI leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry claimed that around 500 to 700 workers were arrested by the police.
