Last Updated: May 11, 2023, 10:41 IST
File picture of Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Fawad Chaudhry.
Imran Khan’s PTI additionally mentioned that PTI Chairman Spokesperson Musarat Cheema and Senator Ejaz Chaudhry have been additionally kidnapped by Rangers from Islamabad
Former Pakistan Foreign Minister and PTI chief Shah Mehmood Qureshi was arrested by the Islamabad police on Thursday and transferred to an unknown location.
A video shared by Qureshi’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: get together on Twitter exhibits plain-clothed males taking him away, with him waving at get together employees earlier than departing from the placement the place he was detained.
“Tehreek-e-Insaf Vice Chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been arrested by the Islamabad Police and transferred to an unknown location,” the get together tweeted on Thursday.
Vice Chairman @PTIofficial Shah Mahmood Qureshi has been arrested in a single day. This is his message for PTI employees, supporters and anxious Pakistanis:
“The world have to be made conscious:
There is a really actual propaganda marketing campaign towards PTI, making an attempt to place us as violent… https://t.co/TpT853pMr9
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) May 11, 2023
The get together additionally mentioned that PTI Chairman Spokesperson Musarat Cheema and Senator Ejaz Chaudhry have been additionally kidnapped by Rangers from Islamabad.
The former international minister was taken into custody from the Gilgit-Baltistan House in Islamabad after a failed try by the police on Wednesday afternoon, studies mentioned.
Along with @SMQureshiPTI , Chairman Spokesperson Musarat Cheema and Senator Ejaz Chaudhry have additionally been kidnapped by Rangers from Islamabad. Law of the jungle! #LaunchImranKhan
— PTI (@PTIofficial) May 11, 2023
Qureshi’s arrest comes a day after senior PTI chief and get together’s Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry was arrested exterior the Supreme Court in Islamabad on Wednesday.
Chaudhry was arrested below Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Ordinance (MPO) after he got here out of the apex courtroom premises and was shifted to the Secretariat Police Station.
PTI Secretary General Asad Umar was additionally arrested from the premises of the IHC — the identical courtroom from the place Khan was taken into custody. The get together earlier mentioned 5 get together leaders together with Omar Sarfaraz Cheema, Ali Zaidi and Akram Usman, have been arrested.
🚨🚨#BREAKING: #PTI claims since arrest of former PM @ImranKhanPTI, it’s 47 employees died, close to 100 injured and 1000 arrested in clashes with safety forces. PTI additional says 5 get together leaders arrested and authorities raided properties of 9 PTI officers. pic.twitter.com/PagTJmiEot— Asad Ali Toor (@AsadAToor) May 10, 2023
The political turmoil in Pakistan reached new heights on Wednesday as violent protests unfold throughout the nation, prompting the federal government to name within the navy for help.
Imran Khan was despatched to an eight-day bodily remand to the National Accountability Bureau. Khan’s dramatic arrest on Tuesday sparked widespread violent protests throughout Pakistan, leaving not less than eight individuals useless and almost 300 others injured in clashes between protesters and legislation enforcement businesses.