Violation Of Section 144: Over 40 PTI workers sent to jail

ISLAMABAD: Judicial magistrates on Friday sent over 40 workers and supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who had been arrested for violating Section 144 to Adiala Jail on judicial remand. Golra police had arrested 37 PTI workers for gathering and holding a convention in Sector E-11/4 while the Kohsar police arrested six for taking out a rally in F-7 Markaz on Thursday evening. Police said Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Asad Umar were leading around 200 to 250 party workers. Police told the protesters that all kinds of rallies and gatherings of five or more persons at any public place in Islamabad had been banned by the district magistrate under Section 144 and requested them to disperse. However, when the protesters did not disperse, police started arresting them. The 43 workers have been booked for violating orders of a public servant.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29^th, 2016.