The PTI claimed arrests of a party leader on Tuesday and “several” workers as they went to the streets to officially begin a national movement for the release 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, which was scheduled to reach its “peak” today to mark the second year of its imprisonment. According to PTI Asad Qaiser leader, August 5 is the beginning of the protest, but should not be considered a “final call.”
“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.”
Reuters The images also showed at least two other people detained in Lahore.
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 chapters of the district of the party also alleged police actions against their workers and supporters who had met to celebrate protests.
The PTI in Bahawalpur said in X that “several” of its workers who had met in the district of Baluchistan Kohlu for a protest were arrested.
The alleged photos of the incident shared by the party showed the workers who made a victory pose when they entered a police truck, with police officers equipped with canes.
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.
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.
Meanwhile, the opposition party shared a video of his convoy that departed from Peshawar for Swabi.
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