News Report
RAWALPINDI: In an attempt to fill the jails in their court arrest drive, as many as 80 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders and workers were arrested in Rawalpindi, local media reported on Friday.
Local media said that several leaders including Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Abbasi, Fayazul Hassan, Waheed Qasim and Ijaz Khan Jazi were arrested by the police on Friday.
Fayazul Hassan reached Committee Chowk Rawalpindi and reportedly presented himself for arrest. Chauhan said that he would not seek the bail after the arrest.
PTI leaders arrested in Rawalpindi
Reports said that following Chauhan, Zulfi Bukhari and Sheikh Rashid also reached Committee Chowk for arrest. However, only Bukhari was arrested by the police.
Police sources said that as many as 80 people were arrested in the jail-filling campaign.
The movement of PTI started on Wednesday from Lahore where key leaders from Punjab, including Asad Umar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Azam Khan Swati, and Omar Sarfaraz Cheema gave court arrests.
Earlier, chairman PTI and former Prime Minister Imran Khan had said they launched the drive of “Jail Bharo Tehreek” to achieve ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’.
However, the government rejected his claim and said that PTI’s leader Imran Khan “Jail Bharo Tehreek” did not convince the people to come on road.
