- Aliya Hamza was arrested for youth convention: Seemabia Tahir.
- Standing situation as workers gather outside the civil line police station.
- Police said the former ruling party organized the event without authorization.
Rawalpindi: A tense situation broke out in Rawalpindi around midnight after the police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI), the chief organizer of Punjab Aliya Hamza and several workers and transferred them to several police stations in the city.
Police sources citing a PTI agreement without the necessary authorization of the authorities as justification behind the arrests, Hamza and eight other workers were transferred to the civil line police station.
PTI chief Seemabia Tahir, while confirming Hamza’s arrest, said that the PTI Punjab chief organizer was detained in the women’s police station, and that five of the party workers had been transferred to the airport police station.
“We had a youth convention in Rawalpindi today from where [Aliya] Hamza was arrested. It is our constitutional right to protest or keep an agreement, we did not act against the law, “said Tahir.
Her statement follows the previous refusal of Hamza’s arrest, because she had previously declared that the party leader had gone to save the arrested workers leading to his own arrest.
Meanwhile, the arrest of PTI workers led to a tense situation after a large number of PTI supporters gathered before the civilian police station to protest against police action.
A case was recorded against Hamza and other PTI workers in the airport police stations with provisions relating to incentives, resistance to police, block the road and interfere in official tasks.
The case, while alleging that the suspects protest in Dhok Kamal Din by blocking the road and also used the stone against the police, said that Hamza, Muhammid Zahid, Noman Aslam, Adil Murnir and Shamim Aftab were arrested by the police.
Development marks the last incident in the PTI rope shooting over a year with the authorities with regard to the attempt of the former party in the power to hold public gatherings – the government launching a repression against them by citing, among other things, reasons of security and authorization.
The Party based on Imran Khan again has the police time, and the government’s action against them blaming them for depriving the political space party.
Thursday, the sisters of Khan – Aleema Khan, Noreen Khanum and Uzma Khanum – as well as the chief of opposition of the National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan, the opposition chief of Sunni Ittehad (sic) Sahibzada Hamid Raza and the chief of opposition of Punjab, Ahmed Khan Bhachar.
The arrests occurred after the leaders of the PTI engaged in a verbal argument with the police for not having been authorized to meet the founder of the PTI incarcerated in Adiala prison.
The altercation occurred a week after the PTI workers clashed with the police near the Adiala of Rawalpindi prison, the police holding several workers and managers.
