Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) central leaders Asad Qaiser and Pervez Khattak have reportedly been arrested from Islamabad.
Asad Qaiser and Pervez Khattak were arrested from the federal capital today, ARY News reported on Thursday quoting source. They added that the PTI leaders were shifted to an undisclosed location.
Earlier today, Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) fixed Qaiser’s petition — seeking the direction of authorities to restrain them from arresting the PTI leader under Section 3 of Maintenance of Public Ordinance (MPO) — for hearing tomorrow (Friday).
The close aides of party chairman Imran Khan are also part of the negotiating committee formed by the latter to hold talks with the incumbent government to break the political deadlock.
Earlier today, PTI President Parvez Elahi was arrested by anti-corruption officials from outside his home in Lahore in connection with a corruption case.
He was wanted in the Rs70 million corruption case related to the embezzlement of development funds allocated for the Gujrat district.
The anti-corruption court judge had also discarded his bail in the case after declaring Elahi’s medical certificate bogus which claimed that he had been experiencing chest pain.
The anti-corruption spokesperson in a statement said Elahi was taken into custody while trying to flee and added that he was wanted in various corruption cases.
