Former Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, Former Member National Assembly Sheikh Rashid Shafiq and other nominees
Rawalpindi: Cases have been registered against dozens of PTI leaders and workers for protesting against the possible arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan.
Police station against 22 nominated leaders of PTI and 60 unknown workers including former Deputy Speaker of Punjab Assembly Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, former member of National Assembly Sheikh Rashid Shafiq and former members of Provincial Assembly for burning and resisting the police and blocking Murree Road. And two separate cases were registered in Waris Khan. While 7 workers were also arrested.
When the operation started for the arrest of Imran Khan in Zaman Park Lahore by the Islamabad and Punjab police, PTI officials and workers came out in protest and blocked the highways in Rawalpindi, Islamabad like the rest of the country. Strongly protested.
Clashes between police and protesters continued till late night and Murree Road became a battlefield.
The police have registered two separate cases in police station City and police station Waris Khan under the provisions of arson, stone pelting, blocking the main highway etc.
Former Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi, Former MPA Ijaz Khan, Asif Mehmood, Umar Tanveer Butt, General Secretary PTI Sajid Sati, President Youth Wing Sabah Qureshi, PTI Social Media Coordinator Haseeb Naqvi in the Thana City case. , Adeel Naqvi, PTI minority leader Samuel alias Bilor, 14 leaders have been named and 30 have been kept unknown.
In the case, the position has been taken that PTI workers reached Liaquat Bagh Chowk armed with sticks, slingshots, etc. on the orders of the leadership and the protesters blocked Murree Road by burning tires. They attacked the police officers and personnel by throwing sticks and stones, and resisted in the car.
A case has also been registered in the Waris Khan police station under the provisions of the police for pelting stones on the police to block the road by protesting, including arson and damage to property, in which former member of the National Assembly Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, MPA Ijaz Khan Jazzi. 8 leaders, including Wasiq Qayyum, Asif Mahmood, have been named and 30 workers have been kept unknown.
Late night police crackdown also continued. Waris Khan police station under the leadership of SHO Mirza Javed Iqbal raided at different places and arrested five PTI workers.
Similarly, Gujjar Khan police also continued late night raids and arrested Tehreek-e-Insaf Youth Wing’s Rashid Minhas and Mirza Umeer.
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