Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) president Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad was placed under house arrest for 30 days at Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) headquarters in Mansoora while JI secretary general Syed Munawar Hassan was arrested on Monday. MMA deputy secretary general Liaqat Baloch escaped arrest while JI information secretary Amirul Azeem, former MPA Ahsanullah Waqas and Chaudhry Shaukat were injured during clashes between the police and lawyers at the Lahore High Court.
JI stated that police raided its headquarters at 2:15pm and put Qazi under house arrest while the police also arrested Syed Munawar Hassan who was present at Mansoora. Police personnel were deployed outside QaziÂ’s residence and at MansooraÂ’s main entrance.