PTI to file petitions for release of arrested leaders, workers

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday has decided to file petitions for the release of leaders and workers, who voluntarily presented their arrests for Jail Bharo Tehreek, ARY News reported.

The PTI has constituted a legal team that will challenge the arrest of the PTI leaders and workers.

The petitions will be filed with the Lahore High Court for the recovery of the PTI leaders, and workers. The house arrest of the PTI leaders under MPO 3.

It may be noted that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday announced the suspension of the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” after the Supreme Court (SC) verdict on Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) polls.

Taking to Twitter, the former premier had said the party was suspending its “Jail Bharo Tehreek and moving forward with election campaigns in KP and Punjab”.

It was the responsibility of the Supreme Court to uphold the Constitution and they have valiantly done that through their judgment today. It is an assertion of the Rule of Law in Pakistan,” the PTI chairman wrote in a tweet.