MULTAN: Veteran politician Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has claimed police barged into his house and arrested his son-in-law and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate and house servants.
Javed Hashmi said that around 20 Punjab Police officials surrounded his ‘Makhdoom Rasheed’ residence at 1:00 am and illegally entered without a warrant, violating the sanctity of the house. The PTI workers’ convention was scheduled to take place when the raid took place, according to the senior politician.
پنجاب پولیس کا رات 1 بجے بیسیوں اہلکاروں نے میری مخدوم رشید کی رہائش گاہ کا محاصرہ کر لیا ہے اور غیر قانونی طور میرے گھر کی چادر چار دیواری کا تقدس پامال کرتے ہوئے بلا وارنٹ اندر داخل ہوگئے۔ میرے داماد شاہد بہار ہاشمی اور نواسے قاسم ہاشمی کو غیر قانونی تحویل میں لے لیا گیا ہے۔…
— Javed Hashmi (@JavedHashmiJH) January 24, 2024
“My son-in-law Shahid Bahar Hashmi and grandson Qasim Hashmi have been taken into illegal custody,” he wrote on his X account. All employees had been arrested, he added. He claimed that police entered his house by breaking the doors.
Despite the raid, a close relative of the senior politician, Makhdoom Zahid Bahar Hashmi said the workers’ convention would take place at Hashmi’s residence and the candidate for NA-151 constituency Meher Bano would also attend it.
