City Police late on Monday night have geared up a crackdown against PPP activists and workers and arrested more than 500 activists apparently to thwart the ‘long march’ scheduled for today (Tuesday). The Lahore police conducted raids at the houses of PPP workers and leaders by mounting ladders against the walls of their houses and sent them to different police stations in the provincial metropolis.
PPP Lahore President Aziz-ur-Rehman Chan said that during the ongoing detentions of party workers, no less than 328 party workers had been sent to different jails across the province. He added that more than 700 party activists were locked up in different police stations in the city. Awami National Party leader Ehsan Wyne, who was bailed earlier, have again been detained and reportedly sent to Mianwali Jail.
Meanwhile, the Home Department has given the police blank detention orders that can be filled out after any wanted person was arrested, sources told Daily Times.