PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been arrested in Islamabad on Wednesday. In keeping with Geo Information, the PTI chief has been arrested from Islamabad’s Crimson Zone space. The arrest comes after police apprehended PTI Secretary Common Asad Umar amid countrywide protests by PTI employees after Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday.
Qureshi has been taken into custody for 15 days beneath Part 3 of the Upkeep of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, Geo Information reported. Each — Qureshi and Umar — have been taken to Secretariat Police Station in Islamabad, with police attempting to arrest PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry as effectively.
PTI chief Fawad Chaudhry has claimed that the Islamabad police had been out to arrest him and had gathered exterior the Supreme Court docket constructing.
“The Islamabad Excessive Court docket gave a choice yesterday barring the police from arresting me in any case until Might 12. I’m current within the Supreme Court docket the place a petition has been filed towards the arrest of Imran Khan and a heavy pressure of Islamabad Police is exterior to arrest me,” he tweeted.
اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ نے کل فیصلہ دیا کہ مجھے 12 تاریخ تک کسی بھی کیس میں گرفتار نہیں کیا جا سکتا، میں سپریم کورٹ میں موجود ہوں جہاں عمران خان کی گرفتاری کیخلاف درخواست دائیر کی گئ ہے اور باہر اسلام آباد پولیس کی بھاری نفری مجھے گرفتار کرنے کیلئے موجود ہے۔ پاکستان میں عملی طور پر…
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) May 10, 2023
Umar was earlier arrested by the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) from Islamabad Excessive Court docket premises.
In the meantime, an accountability court docket has granted the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) eight-day remand of PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
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