ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former aviation minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan has been arrested from Islamabad along with his son and others, police sources said on Wednesday.
They said the former minister was arrested for his alleged involvement in the May 9 riots.
PTI leader Ghulam Sarwar Khan, his son Mansoor Hayyat and nephew Ammar Siddiqui were taken into custody from a house in Islamabad’s F-8 Sector, according to the reports.
They all were wanted to police in May 9 riots case and attack over Judicial Complex, the police said adding cases were registered against the accused in Islamabad, Taxila and Rawalpindi.
It to mention here that the police had been raiding for the arrest of Ghulam Sarwar Khan and had also sealed a petrol pump owned by him.
Violent clashes broke out across the country after former prime minister and PTI chief was arrested from the Islamabad High Court premises on May 9.
The protestors agitated over their chairman’s arrest, with Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Islamabad summoning the armed forces to ensure law and order.
Lahore Corps Commander’s house and other Army installations also came under attack during the protest of PTI workers.
Following the riots, the military and civilian leadership resolved to give exemplary punishment to all those involved in hooliganism, ransacking of public and private properties, arson, attacking sensitive military installations and desecration of martyrs’ monuments by invoking the Army Act.
