Shah Mehmood Qureshi tells supporters to remain peaceful

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that objections across the country would continue and called on the people to remain peaceful, ARY News reported.

“Peaceful protest is your constitutional right, keep it going. But don’t take the law into your own hands,” Qureshi said while talking to the media outside the Police Lines Guest House in Islamabad.

PTI leader said that since yesterday he had been calling on protesters to remain peaceful while protesting. He made an appeal to the IHC chief justice to issue an order for his immediate recovery and appearance in the court.

He went on to say that the entire nation was deeply concerned about the health and safety of former prime minister Imran Khan.

‘PTI’s senior leadership ‘fighting’ to meet Imran Khan’

PTI’s Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that the party’s senior leadership is in Islamabad and is “fighting” to meet Imran Khan in order to have him released from “this illegal abduction”.

In a message posted on Twitter, Qureshi said: “We continue to call PTI family workers, supporters, and the people of Pakistan onto the streets for peaceful protest against this unconstitutional behaviour. No one, absolutely no one, should be allowed to ride roughshod over the law,” he said.

He added that PTI’s Ali Haider Zaidi had also been “picked up” while the party’s workers were “fired upon indiscriminately, killed and water cannoned with chemical water”.

“Today, my offices in Multan were raided and my staff, beaten up,” he alleged.

PTI to challenge IHC’s verdict in SC

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to challenge the Islamabad High Court’s verdict of terming the arrest of Imran Khan, legal, in Supreme Court.

The decision was taken in an overnight emergency meeting of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Tuesday with the help of Rangers in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

The meeting was attended by senior leadership of PTI. The meeting also decided to continue ‘peaceful’ protests across the country against the arrest of Imran Khan.

Imran Khan arrest

Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was arrested by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the Al-Qadir Trust case on Tuesday.

The PTI chief was taken into custody by Rangers personnel, who were acting on the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) warrant, from the premises of Islamabad High Court where the former premier had gone to seek bail in multiple cases registered against him.

Read more: Imran Khan’s arrest termed legal by court

Later on, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) termed the arrest of former premier and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan ‘legal.’

Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Aamer Farooq heard the petition challenging Imran Khan’s arrest. The court also issued contempt court notices to Interior Secretary and IG Islamabad.