Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) senior leaders Arif Alvi and Imran Ismail Monday (today) were released after a brief detention.
Their release came after Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar ordered police to immediately release them.
Earlier, PTI senior leaders Arif Alvi and Imran Ismail were taken into ‘protective custody’ by capital police outside Imran Khan’s Bani Gala residence.
TV footage showed dramatic scenes as police officers pushed the MNA toward a van and Arif Alvi resisted. The lawmaker wrestled with police officers and at one point also fell to the ground, but police succeeded in pushing him into the hi-roof van.
Imran Ismail on Twitter said he was “arrested brutally”. The PTI leader tweeted a selfie from inside the van.
The leaders had threatened to begin a sit-in outside Bani Gala to protest the arrests of party workers when police took them into ‘protective custody’.
Arif Alvi before sitting in the police van, called upon the party workers not to despair, push ahead, and attend Islamabad Lockdown with zest, adding he does not hope to be released anytime soon but it does not make any difference if some thousands of workers are put in jails.
Imran Ismail also tweeted saying the two PTI leaders were taken to the Secretariat police station. However, an official from the police station told Dawn.com that neither PTI leader had been brought into the station.
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Why police? We deserve a terror free future from PTI and Taliban. These culprits should've been deported
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