A number of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf figures, including Latif Khosa and Salman Akram Raja, were arrested during police raids in various locations on Sunday as the erstwhile ruling party held nationwide protests against alleged cheating in the February 8 general elections.
PTI supporters and activists took to the streets across the country today, with rallies in Rawalpindi and protests in Karachi, Kandhkot, Tank, and other cities, in response to the Imran Khan-founded party’s call for demonstrations against “manipulation of election results and stealing” of the PTI’s mandate in the recent elections.
The arrest of lawyer Salman AkrRaja.
In Lahore, police arrested several protesting PTI workers from GPO Chowk. Authorities deployed a large police contingent on the city’s Mall Road and other neighborhoods. During the rallies, police arrested Hafiz Farhat Abbas and Mian Haroon Akbar, both PTI-backed Punjab Assembly MPs. PTI leaders Latif Khosa and Salman Akram Raja were also apprehended in Lahore.
PTI ticket holders, including veteran politician Javed Hashmi’s son-in-law and grandson, Zahid Hashmi and Qasim Hashmi, were arrested in Multan.
