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Hundreds of lawyers, opposition party workers arrested
Police across Punjab on Wednesday launched a massive crackdown against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders and workers to foil their Rawalpindi rally and arrested around 400 of the partys workers, according to AFP.PPP sources revealed that police in Lahore had raided the PPP Secretariat in Faisal Town and arrested about 100 workers from there. The police also raided the residences of PPP leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Naveed Chaudhry, as well as arresting 50 PPP workers from their houses. Baton-charged: Meanwhile, riot police tear-gassed, baton-charged and arrested PPP leaders and activists when they tried to stage a sit-in outside Parliament House while lawyers and workers of various political parties were arrested across the country. In Peshawar, the government either arrested or placed under house arrest 10 leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). The arrested PML-N leaders from the NWFP include Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Pir Sabir Shah, Abdus Subhan Khan and Haji Muhammad Afzal. The arrested ANP leaders are Asfandyar Wali Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bilour and Syed Aqil Shah. The arrested JI leaders are Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Shabbir Ahmed Khan and Dr Iqbal Khalil. Posted by: Fred 2007-11-08 |
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