Over 60 employees of Imran Khan’s occasion arrested throughout ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ in Lahore

More than 60 employees, together with six senior leaders, of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion had been arrested following its mass court docket arrest motion over what it known as the violation of elementary rights.

File picture of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan.

By Press Trust of India: Over 60 employees, together with six senior leaders, of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion had been arrested on Wednesday following its mass court docket arrest motion over what it known as the violation of elementary rights, abuse of the Constitution and the financial meltdown.

The occasion, nonetheless, claimed that between 500 and 700 employees and leaders have been picked up by the Lahore police.

“Police arrested 60 PTI activists including former federal ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and Hammad Azhar, Senators Azam Swati and Waleed Iqbal (grandson of poet Allama Iqbal) and former Punjab governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema,” a senior officer of Punjab police informed PTI.

“They presented themselves for arrest,” he mentioned, including that the arrested males have been shifted to the Kot Lakhpat Jail for a month below the upkeep of public order.

PTI Vice President Fawad Chaudhry mentioned that a lot of occasion leaders and employees had given themselves up for arrest.

“Around 500-700 PTI workers have given themselves up for arrest,” he mentioned.

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Chaudhry claimed that the police had arrived ready with police vans however had been “worried after seeing the thousands of people and contemplating what they should do”.

He mentioned Wednesday’s protest was restricted to Lahore and on Thursday the occasion employees and leaders would court docket arrest in Peshawar.

Speaking from contained in the police van, Qureshi mentioned that it was a matter of nice satisfaction that he was the primary to offer himself up for arrest as promised earlier.

“This movement will continue until the imported government puts an end to the lawlessness in the country” and is held accountable for the last 10 months in the people’s court, he said.

A large number of PTI workers and leaders had gathered at Jail Road. Some of the party workers had chained and kept themselves in the ‘artificial jails’ they made.

The government had imposed section 144 on different roads including Mall Road Lahore under which not more than five people can gather there.

Earlier, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that police will not arrest any PTI worker for violating section 144.

“Only these PTI leaders might be arrested who’re wished in corruption or some other prison instances,” Sanaullah said.

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“The PTI leaders are doing picture periods after boarding a police van in Lahore. They want political mileage by means of such stunts,” he said, adding that through this campaign 70-year-old Imran Khan wants to create anarchy in the country.

Information Minister Marriyum Auranzeb said that the PTI leaders have attacked a police van. “The PTI management might be arrested for attacking the police van,” she added.

On the other hand, Khan said that he has started the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” (court arrest movement) for Haqeeqi Azadi for two main reasons. “One, it’s a peaceable, non-violent protest in opposition to the assault on our constitutionally-guaranteed elementary rights. We are going through sham FIRs & NAB instances, custodial torture, assaults on journalists & social.”

He further said the drive was against the economic meltdown “introduced on by cabal of crooks who’ve cash laundered billions in looted wealth & obtained NROs (deal) for themselves whereas crushing the individuals particularly the poor and center class, below the burden of spiralling inflation and rising unemployment.”

Khan urged the people to take to the streets to get “true freedom”.

“As a matter of truth, this motion will take you to a free and blissful Pakistan the place your elementary rights are protected. The ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ is the identify of jihad,” he added.

The cricketer-turned-politician said he would also present himself for arrest once his bullet wound heals.

In November last year, Khan suffered three bullet injuries to his right leg during an anti-government rally in Wazirabad in Punjab province.

“There appears to be no rule of regulation within the nation as regardless of the court docket’s order to carry the polls in Punjab inside 90 days the state establishments are usually not able to adjust to it. If the elections are usually not held inside 90 days in two provinces, it is going to create a constitutional disaster and promote jungle regulation within the nation,” Khan mentioned.

The PTI had dissolved its governments in Punjab and Kyber-Pakhtaunkhawa provinces over a month in the past. Under the Constitution, elections have to be held inside 90 days after the dissolution of an meeting.

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The PML-N-led nine-party authorities has mentioned that holding separate elections for the provincial and nationwide assemblies just isn’t attainable due to the financial disaster and the regulation and order scenario.

Khan, who was ousted as prime minister in April final 12 months after a no-confidence movement was handed within the National Assembly, is searching for recent basic elections in Pakistan.

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Feb 22, 2023