KARACHI: Police surrounded Jamat-e-Islami’s Idara Noor-e-Haq and took into custody JI Deputy Amir Hafiz Naeem and took Dr Farukh and two other workers in custody.
JI Amir Siraj-ul Haq protested the arrest of the party leader.
Police has blocked routes coming from and to the JI institution and police mobiles, and water tankers have been put in place to block the routes, he said.
For shifting the detained workers, a prison van also reached Idara Noor-e-Haq.
Earlier, while speaking to a private news channel, JI Deputy Amir Hafiz Naeem said that arrests have also been made in the past, adding that his party is peaceful.
He said that the party’s scheduled protest against Karachi Electric corporation will be held as per schedule.
JI Amir Siraj-ul-Haq condemned the arrests, saying that police cannot stop the party from protest through such acts.
Sit-ins, gatherings, and protests are a democratic right of people, he said.
According to the spokesman, at the time of crackdown, Hafiz Naeem was also present in the building.
The JI workers were to protest against the recent hike in the tariff of the Karachi Electric corporation (KE) today at Shahrae-Faisal.
