PESHAWAR
After the arrest of Arbab Jehandad, former lawmaker of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), heavy contingent of police raided the homes of key former ministers of the party in Peshawar in an apparent attempt to arrest them.
The police of the provincial metropolis on Tuesday raided former PTI ministers and key leaders from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Kamran Bangash, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Shaukat Ali and Asif Ali.
However, the police failed to arrest them as most of the senior leaders of the party in the province in hiding after the 9 May violence in KP.
Police have lodged cases against the PTI lawmakers, workers and those attacked and vandalized government installations across the province and created law and order situation after the arrest of PTI chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan in an alleged corruption case.
It is pertinent to mention here that former ministers Atif Khan and Shahram Taraki have been granted bail by the courts.
Ex-MPA and leader of PTI from Peshawar Arbab Jahandad Khan has been arrested from Murree.
A case had been registered against him over arson at Peshawar Toll Plaza. He was arrested by Punjab police and handed over to KP police.
Jahandad was the first PTI ex-lawmaker from Peshawar arrested by police in cases registered against him over 9 May riots in the capital city.
