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PTI general-secretary Asad Umar on Tuesday said to the PML-N-led coalition government that its crackdown on the party’s leadership would not help run the country, but would instead bring it to a halt.<\/p>\n

“I want to the tell you that what happened last night has just increased the enthusiasm and passion among our workers,” Umar said at a news conference in Peshawar alongside the party’s vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi today, in the aftermath of police raids on the residences of several key PTI figures.<\/p>\n

“You can use power to bring Pakistan to a halt, not run it,” Umar said and strongly condemned the “harassment and arrests” of PTI’s leaders in Punjab.<\/p>\n

According to former information minister Fawad Chaudhry, “nearly 1,100 houses were raided and over 400 women and men were arrested overnight”. A police officer was martyred during the chaos on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, videos of the police action, that are doing rounds on social media, drew widespread condemnation from politicians, journalists and other quarters.<\/p>\n

The PTI leader revealed that the raids were not limited to Lahore, alleging that lawmakers were arrested in Sindh, Islamabad and Rawalpindi as well. “In Punjab, a 75-year-old woman was taken into custody. The police even tried to take our MPA Yasmin Rashid, who is recovering from cancer.”<\/p>\n

What was the government trying to do, Umar asked, cautioning that such incidents would just further push the country into chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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