ISLAMABAD: Police have arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior vice president Shireen Mazari from her residence in Islamabad in the wee hours of Friday, ARY News reported, quoting sources.
Crackdown against PTI senior leadership and workers continues across the country after violent protests from Tuesday.
According to sources, the police raided the house of the former federal minister located in E/7 area of the federal capital and arrested Shireen Mazari. The PTI leader has been shifted to Abpara police station.
Iman Mazari, Shireen Mazari’s daughter, in a message on Twitter, claimed that around 50 policemen raided their house and arrested her mother.
Iman also claimed that the doors of their house were broken by the policemen.
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According to Islamabad police spokesperson, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Fawad Chaudhry, Jamsheed Iqbal Cheema, Musarrat Cheema, Falak Naz Chitrali and Malika Bukhari have been arrested for ‘provoking’ people for violent protests.
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