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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh chapter President and former federal minister Ali Zaidi has been arrested from PTI Karachi Secretariat by Sindh Police on Saturday.
PTI Spokesman claimed Ali Zaidi was detained from PTI Secretariat in Defense and taken away by police and plainclothes officials.
PTI سندھ آفس سے پارٹی کے صوبائی صدر علی حیدر زیدی سندھ پولیس نے گرفتار کرلیا ہے
— Farrukh Habib (@FarrukhHabibISF) April 15, 2023
Strongly reacting to the report, PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry said that Zaidi was arrested “without any arrest warrant”.
He maintained that the system of cruelty and oppression was unacceptable in any way.
The party’s leadership has been embroiled in legal battles since its government was toppled through a no-confidence motion in April last year. PTI Chairman Imran Khan claims more than 100 cases have been registered against him alone.
Cases were also registered against other PTI leaders, including Hassan Khan Niazi — the nephew and focal person of Imran Khan — Fawad Chaudhry, Asad Umar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Azam Khan Swati and Shahbaz Gill.
It is pertinent to mention here that Zaidi — among other leaders of the PTI — was nominated in a terror case for allegedly vandalising the office of Keamari deputy commissioner (DC) amid the recounting of local body polls’ votes in January.
The case was registered after PTI had protested outside the office of the DC, where workers of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) were also present. Calashes among the supporters of PTI and PPP broke out when they came face to face outside the office.
“PTI leaders and workers vandalised the office, damaged the vehicles, and took office belongings, including laptops. As a result of firing amid the chaos, three citizens were also injured,” read the FIR.
On January 20, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) granted pre-arrest bail to Ziadi in the terror case for vandalising the DC office in the city’s Keamari area.
