Workers arrested ahead of protest: Imran’s party
Police also stopped from entering Lahore dozens of vehicles of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters
Over 1,000 supporters of jailed former Pakistan PM Imran Khan were on Friday arrested to thwart his party's street movement against the military-backed governments at provincial and federal levels, a PTI leader said.
The Punjab police stopped from entering Lahore dozens of vehicles of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters, who were accompanying senior party leader and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM Sohail Afridi for launching the street protests, opposition leader in Punjab assembly PTI’s Moeen Riaz Qureshi said.
Khan, the 73-year-old PTI founder, has been in jail since August 2023, facing multiple corruption cases. Senior PTI leaders, including Afridi, have been preparing to initiate the street movement across Punjab province with the sole aim of getting Khan released. “In a crackdown on PTI workers in Lahore, police arrested more than 1,000 workers,” Qureshi said in a statement.
