RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The Chief of Awami Muslim League (AML) Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed while riding on a motorbike reached Committee Chowk in Rawalpindi on Friday afternoon despite a heavy contingent of police was deployed in various places to arrest the opposition parties’ leadership.
Talking to media at Committee Chowk, Sheikh Rasheed said that i fulfilled my promise to reach the Jalsa venue by 03:00 pm.
“Catch me if you dare” Sheikh Rasheed said adding that 450 party’s workers had been arrested. He alleged that personnel of Intelligence Bureau (IB) in plain clothes were arresting workers.
Sheikh Rasheed said that the people of Rawalpindi proved that they didn’t want present rulers.
“We want democracy in Pakistan, We want accountability in Pakistan,” the AML Chief said. “Sea of people will flood the capital on November 2,” he added
Meanwhile, the Punjab police continued a crackdown against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and AML workers in Rawalpindi. Police also arrested PTI’s member of Punjab assembly Ejaz Khan Jazi.
The Punjab police also resorted to teargas shelling and baton charge at Committee Chowk to disperse the protesters.
The AML Chief Sheikh Rasheed planned to hold a public gathering at Lal Haveli in which the PTI Chairman Imran Khan was also to participate. However, the police had placed Containers around Lal Haveli as well as put Imran Khan under House arrest at his residence in Bani Gala. No one was being allowed to enter or leave Imran Khan’s Bani Gala residence.
Earlier, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Rawalpindi said that the AML was not permitted to hold a meeting in Lal Haveli as Section 144 had been imposed in Twin Cities and he also wrote a letter to Deputy Commissioner Islamabad asking him to not to allow Imran Khan enter Rawalpindi.
‘We have been placed under unannounced house arrest’, Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Talking to media, the Vice Chairman of PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi asked PTI workers to reach Islamabad on November 2. He said that more than 25 PTI workers had been arrested.
Qureshi said that Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had to decide whether it stood with democracy or not?
“We have been placed under unannounced house arrest,” he said.
