Nawaz Sharif finds Jail Bharo Tehreek 'unimportant'
Pakistan
'Will say if he finds something worthy of comment'
LONDON (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) 'Jail Bharo Tehreek' (JBT) was not important.
He said this at a meeting with ex-Azad Kashmir president Raja Farooq Haider Khan. Mr Sharif said if there was something [worthy of comment] in the movement, he would have liked to say something. On the other hand, Mr Sharif also expressed reservations about the incumbent Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government. “We’ll consult other political parties to deliberate how a no-confidence motion against the AJK government could benefit the masses,” he added.
The Jail Bharo Tehreek (JBT) incepted by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Feb 22 in Lahore had moved to Rawalpindi a day ago (Friday) after shows in Lahore and Peshawar.
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Sources said almost 100 PTI leaders and activists including Fayazul Hassan Chohan and Zulfi Bukhari courted arrest at the Committee Chowk and outside R.A. Bazaar police station in Rawalpindi. “The police had decided against arresting those surrendering voluntarily," sources added. The police shifted the prisoners detained in the Adiala jail to the Shahpur and Hafizabad jails.
PTI leaders Fayazul Hassan Chohan, Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Abbasi, Ijaz Khan Jazi, Latafat Abbasi and Chaudhry Sajid were transferred to the Shahpur jail. Other than that, the police moved 41 PTI activists from Adiala jail to the Hafizabad jail. The move came as the Adiala jail was stuffed above its capacity.
Earlier, the fervently promoted "Jail Bharo" movement by the PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had failed to register a significant impact on the incumbent government owing to a lackadaisical attitude of PTI workers, resulting in no voluntary surrenders.
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On the other hand, the police detained PTI vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi for 30 days in the Attock jail. Mr Qureshi was the first to have courted arrest on the movement’s first day in Lahore. Later, other leaders including Zubair Niazi, Asad Umar and Azam Swati sat in the prison van by themselves. Omar Sarfraz Cheema and others also surrendered themselves while Hammad Azhar sat atop a vehicle ostensibly to get a media glare.
