Contrary to govt claims: PTI claims hundreds of workers still behind bars
LAHORE: While a PTI commemorated Youm-e-Tashakkur on Wednesday in Islamabad, a celebration care in Lahore purported hundreds of a workers were still behind bars in Punjab notwithstanding a supervision claiming a contrary.
The celebration leaders, however, unsuccessful to give an accurate series overdue to miss of coordination among opposite wings within a party.
The home dialect had progressing carried deception of Section 144, claiming to have expelled all a workers of PTI incarcerated via Punjab. The workers were arrested to stop them from fasten a Islamabad lockdown, that was called off during a 11th hour.
Punjab Home Secretary Major (retd) Azam Suleman expelled a round that was sent to all a district coordination officers and jail authorities.
Government officials pronounced they had incarcerated 847 workers of PTI and other antithesis parties via Punjab with 147 incarcerated in Lahore along. Police purebred 86 cases opposite 293 workers arrested for violating Section 144.
Opposition Leader in a Punjab Assembly Mehmoodur Rasheed pronounced a home secretary had positive him of releasing all a incarcerated celebration workers.
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Punjab Prisons arch Farooq Nazir told The Express Tribune they have expelled all a PTI workers incarcerated underneath Maintenance of Public Order. The law allows apprehension of those who disseminate rumours.
About 150 PTI workers opposite whom cases were purebred underneath charges of defilement of Section 144 were still in prison. They will have to obtain bail orders from a justice for their recover as per a law, he added.
Meanwhile, celebration sources pronounced that with a deficiency of party’s care in Lahore there has been a disaster to discriminate total per incarcerated workers as good as those who have been released. PTI Lahore (Urban) President Walid Iqbal, who himself was incarcerated for a brief while in Islamabad on Tuesday, was posterior a box in Lahore High Court per a detain of PTI workers.
Out of a PTI workers who were partial of a on-foot caravan, 17 were expelled on Wednesday evening. The 25-member train was arrested by a military final week in Jhelum. During a military raid, a PTI leaders had managed to get away, though 21 workers were held by a police. Four of those arrested were expelled on Tuesday.
Ishtiaq Malik, one of a participants of a caravan, claimed a workers were tormented during their time in prison. While vocalization to The Express Tribune, Malik, who was expelled on Wednesday, pronounced a workers were denied simple amenities including food and toilet during detention.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 3rd, 2016.
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