PESHAWAR
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Asad Qaiser said on Wednesday that party workers to court arrest from Peshawar on Thursday. Issuing a message in connection with the \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d Mr. Qaiser said, \u201cThe movement is being started from Lahore today.\u201d
\nHeaping praise on the PTI workers, Mr Qaiser said, \u201cThe way the PTI leaders and workers surrender themselves before the police is commendable.\u201d He said, \u201cTomorrow, on the second day of the \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d we will court arrest.\u201d
\nSpeaking about the significance of the \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d Mr Qaiser said the movement will play a vital role in the supremacy of the rule of law. He added that the PTI expected that the masses would extend their support in connection with the \u201cJail Bharo Movement.\u201d
\nThe Lahore police teams on Wednesday drove senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and a number of workers to jails minutes after they courted arrest while honouring the call of party supremo Imran Khan.
\nPTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi was the first to have courted arrest as part of party\u2019s \u201cJail Bharo\u201d movement. Reports said police put the PTI vice chairman in the prison van. Later, other leaders including Zubair Niazi, Asad Umar and Azam Swati sat in the prison van by themselves. Omar Sarfraz Cheema and others also surrendered themselves while Hammad Azhar sat atop a vehicle ostensibly to get media glare.
\nPolice said they were carrying the PTI leaders and workers to the Kot Lakhpat and Camp jails but they could not tell whether those arrested would be put behind the bars. Earlier, it was stated that no prison in Lahore had the capacity to keep a number of political workers.
\nTaking to Twitter, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said many PTI leaders and workers including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar and Ejaz Chaudhry had surrendered themselves for the arrest. He said the sea of people had created panic among policemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Asad Qaiser said on Wednesday that party workers to court arrest from Peshawar on Thursday. Issuing a message in connection with the \u201cJail Bharo Movement,\u201d Mr. Qaiser said, \u201cThe movement is being started from Lahore today.\u201d Heaping praise on the PTI workers, Mr Qaiser said, \u201cThe way the PTI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-315376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n