Lahore police said Tuesday that he stopped more than 30 PTI activists after they went to the streets to officially begin a national movement for the launch of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been in jail for two years.
Imran, imprisoned since August 5, 2023 in a case related to state gifts, is complying with a sentence in jail in a case of corruption of £ 190 million and also faces pending judgments in alleged cases of terrorism related to the disturbances of May 9, 2023.
Imran had issued a national protest call, with a statement attributed to him saying that “the movement that begins on August 5 will continue until democracy is restored in its true spirit.” According to PTI Asad Qaiser leader, August 5 was the beginning of the protest, but should not be considered a “final call.”
Said said the deputy inspector of Lahore (operations) Faisal Kamran Dawn.com: “More than 30 PTI activists who tried to block roads in different areas of the city were arrested.”
He denied the reports that the police arrested hundreds of activists.
Around 1 PM, the PTI said that one of its leaders, Rehana Dar, had been arrested by the police in Lahore.
“An old man as a renana to give is being dragged by the blatant Punjab policeman, a shameful view,” the PTI said in his official X account.
He shared a video that shows Dar, who played the 2024 general elections in Sialkot against PML-N Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, was dragged into a police truck by personnel with riot team.
The PTI said that Prime Minister Maryam Nawaz and the inspector General of Punjab, Dr. Usman Anwar, “have sunk a new minimum with this act” and “abandoned any feeling of shame and decency.”
Raja Shahbaz Bhatti, president of the Insaf youth wing of the PTI in North Punjab, said in X that he was injured due to the police action and that four others were arrested.
The president of PTI Baluchistan, Dawood Shah Kakar, said that “several” PTI workers, including five leaders, were arrested after they met in a place in the Kohlu district of Baluchistan for a protest.
The PTI fine chapter claimed that his Lahore rally was “attacked by the police”, with multiple vehicles that participated in it facing damage. The images shared by him showed the rear window of a destroyed car with a hole.
Qaiser said yesterday that the raids had begun in Punjab and Kashmir, while the head of media cells PTI Punjab, Shayan Bashir, said that the police carried out about 200 raids and picked up the party workers, which were allegedly released to present catalogs.
The opposition leaders stopped while they were heading to the Adiala prison
Before today’s planned protests, the Rawalpindi administration prohibited all assemblies and meetings until August 10 under section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, citing an “imminent threat.”
Today, the general secretary of the PTIMan Akram Raja, Tehreek Tahafuz Ayin-I-Pakistan (TTAP) Chief Mahmood Achkazai, Mna Shandana Gulzar and others left for the Adiala prison, where Imran is imprisoned, the game said at 3pm.
“Let’s register our protest under any circumstance, since it is our constitutional right,” said Achakzai in X.
However, the Punjab police arrested them, and the TTAP shared a video of Achakzai’s exchange with the staff. “This route is closed,” said a policeman say.
It is expected that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s prime minister, Ali Amin Gandapur, attends a demonstration in Peshawar, according to a video that shows a container for that meeting.
According to other videos he published, the party organized demonstrations in several cities throughout the country.
Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi, who was recently arrested under the Public Order’s Ordinance (MPO), also directed a demonstration after his last night, the PTI said.
The PTI also shared a video of convoys that leave Peshawar, Mansehra and other cities for Swabi.
The Islamabad-Peshawar highway closed at 5 PM on Swabi Interchange and both lines of Peshawar and Islamabad remained closed despite the various attempts made by the highway police. The Police could not persuade PTI workers, because the highway remained closed and travelers were forced to wait on the side of the high -heat road.
PTI leaders continued to address the protesters.
Asad Umar, the imprisonment of Fawad Chaudhry regrets
Separately, former PTI Asad Umar and Fawad Chaudhry leaders, who had separated from the party following the disturbances of May 9, also regretted the imprisonment of two years of Imran.
Umar, a former finance minister, said in X: “Even two years after the imprisonment of Imran Khan, the Anti-Khan narrative was not sold, and the public believes that Khan is imprisoned for political reasons, not legal.
“Do not waste more time; all national leadership should sit with the PTI and forge a solution according to the Constitution,” he suggested, adding that there was no other way to put an end to the political crisis ongoing.
Chaudhry said that Imran was in jail “just for the good of democracy in Pakistan and the sovereignty of the people.”
