1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Police Friday night raided Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) President Parvez Elahi's residence to arrest him, drawing strong criticism from the party, which has been voicing concerns against the arrests of its workers and leaders.
The six-hour long police action came to a halt after Sohail Zafar Chattha, the Director General of Punjab's Anti-Corruption Establishment, left the scene along with the police contingent.
Chattha, talking to the media at the former chief minister's residence, denied any wrongdoing. He said that they did not act illegally and that a petrol bomb was thrown at the police party who came to arrest Elahi.
He noted that the action was initiated by individuals at Elahi's residence, who were not cooperating with the police. Chattha's appointment as DG ACE was objected to by the PTI. The Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
-led party also challenged the decision of the Punjab caretaker government in court in February this year.
Earlier, the police and anti-corruption officials partially halted their operation, claiming that although Elahi is not present at his residence, his mobile phone's location shows that he is present there. But after information from the arrested house help that Elahi is at his residence, they resumed it.
Twelve individuals, reportedly most of them servants working in the household of the former Punjab chief minister, have been arrested by the police. Moreover, several PTI workers protesting at the scene were also arrested.
The raid comes hours after the PTI and Pakistain Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government held talks on election dates, with the former calling for stopping of their workers' arrests, warning that the talks might derail if the law enforcers' actions do not come to a halt.
Analysts said that the pressure tactics of the authorities are giving a boost to PTI Chairman Imran Khan's popularity, noting that none of the members from the government's side has faced such late-night raids so far.
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