PTI leader Ali Zaidi arrested by Sindh Police in Karachi

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]According to Farrukh Habib, the party’s Central Information Secretary, senior PTI leader Ali Zaidi was arrested by the Sindh Police on Saturday.

Zaidi, the president of the party’s Sindh chapter, was allegedly detained at the PTI office in Karachi.

PTI leader Zulfi Bukhari slammed Zaidi’s arrest, calling it a futile attempt to revive the ruling coalition’s dying politics.

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Bukhari went on to say that the government was acting with extreme arrogance in what he called the “last days of the shameless imported government.”

Former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan strongly condemned the arrest, calling it part of a “London plan in which former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was assured that the PTI would be crushed.”

“Over 3,000 PTI workers arrested, abducted, terrorised. Ali Amin & now Ali Zaidi abducted. A new plan underway for more,” he added.

Imran feared that police may raid his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after 27 Ramazan or over Eidul Fitr.

“They think this will weaken us in case elections are held. Let me state categorically this will not work. People’s anger [is] only increasing and they will see the blowback of this nefarious London Plan in elections,” he further said.

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Zaidi is the latest PTI leader to be apprehended by law enforcement, who have also apprehended several other heavyweights from the former ruling party.

PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur was arrested outside a courthouse in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district earlier this month.

Gandapur voluntarily surrendered to police outside the DI Khan bench of the Peshawar High Court, where he was seeking bail in a variety of cases, including terrorism charges. Before his arrest, Gandapur told the media that he had no knowledge of any FIRs and that he was being held without cause.

Shahbaz Gill and Azam Swati, both PTI members, were previously arrested but later released on bail.

Shireen Mazari, the PTI leader and former human rights minister, also took to Twitter to criticise the government for the arrest, claiming that Zaidi was “abducted” without a warrant.

“Notice the plainclothes men leading the arrest. Condemnable & illegal,” she added.

Omar Ayub Khan, PTI Additional General Secretary, also condemned Zaidi’s arrest.

“This reign of terror cannot continue. The courts have to bring an end to this madness. Pakistan has been put into a complete tailspin by this Imported Govt,” he wrote on his Twitter handle.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

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