Lahore (July 13, 2018): Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders including Khawaja Saad Rafique and others have been detained on the orders of the Inspector General of Punjab Police.
Punjab Inspector General of Police Kaleem Imam has written to the Lahore deputy commissioner ordering the detention of seven PML-N leaders and one’s house arrest for 30 days.
Apart from Saad Rafique, the party leaders include his brother Khawaja Salman Rafique, Mian Marghoob, Bilal Yasin, Khwaja Imran Nazir, Malik Saiful Malook and Waheed Alam Khan.
Moreover, PML-N’s Haji Rana Bakhtiar has been ordered to be placed under house arrest.
The order states that the PML-N leaders’ speeches and actions may disturb law and order in the city.
Earlier today, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the release of arrested PML-N workers by 2 pm today.
Hearing a PML-N petition against the arrests today, Justice Anwarul Haq inquired the Punjab Home Secretary and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Dr Syed Kaleem Imam if they had a list of the detained individuals.
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The home secretary responded by saying that 141 individuals had been arrested.
The court then ordered the home department to immediately present the list of the detained individuals.
“Any actions that disturb the system should not be taken,” the court noted.
The IGP then informed the court that the arrests were made on account of terrorists.
Cellular, Internet Services Suspended In Lahore:
The mobile phone and internet services have been suspended in various parts of Lahore ahead of Nawaz Sharif’s return from London today.
According to reports, the cellular services are being suspended by the government as part of security arrangements as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz plans to welcome its supreme leader who is returning to serve a jail term handed by the accountability court.
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Maryam Nawaz, also convicted by an accountability court, is also accompanying Nawaz Sharif.
A letter from Punjab government is circulating on social media in which the Ministry of Interior has been requested to switch off the mobile phone services in certain areas of the metropolis that include: Lahore Airport, Walled City area, Shadra, Bari/Hadyara area, Nawaz Town area.
Some citizens have also complained of interruption in internet services.
Arrests of PML N Workers is Naked Pre-poll Rigging: Shehbaz
Addressing a presser in Lahore on Thursday in Lahore alongside former railways minister Saad Rafique and former National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday slammed the caretaker government set-up following arrests of more than 100 workers from Lahore ahead of party supremo Nawaz Sharif’s return and warned that the administration and police officer would be held accountable for the excesses meted out to his party workers.
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Shehbaz Sharif said that hundreds of PML-N workers have been arrested across Punjab, who were planning to welcome Party Supreme Leader, Nawaz Sharif.
“Time doesn’t stand still, it will change,” he said.
“I ask police and administration to stop the oppression and excesses. We will bring you to justice if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz comes into power”.
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