[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Karachi General Secretary and Sindh MPA Arslan Taj was arrested on Sunday by the police
According to a PTI Karachi spokesperson, Arslan Taj was arrested “illegally” from his residence today.
He said that three police vehicles arrived at the MPA’s house and that police officers were in plain clothes when they entered the house and ransacked it.
The spokesperson condemned the PTI leader’s arrest, but there has been no response from the Sindh government and police.
Following the incident, PTI Karachi President Aftab Siddiq and Additional Secretary General Imran Ismail immediately wrote a letter to Sindh Chief Secretary Dr Muhammad Sohail Rajput condemning the arrest.
The letter stated that the Sindh police is acting as the provincial government’s “private militia and domestic servant”.
The PTI Karachi leader’s arrest, it continued, was a flagrant violation of several fundamental rights, laws, and constitutional provisions.
In the letter, “severe punishment” was urged against the Sindh police, “particularly those implicated in the kidnapping of MPA Arsalan Taj,” and it was also asked that he be released right away.
“Today, our brother has been picked up from his house,” Ismail said speaking to the media.He questioned where the MPA was taken and what he had done to be punished in this way, adding that his family is stricken with fear
Party’s official Twitter account shared a video of the arrest, calling out the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for “repeatedly showing their true colours”.
“Bilawal and Zardari should be ashamed of themselves for this gross act of fascism,” it tweeted, urging the media to “speak up” against them.
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