The Pakistan police have intensified the crackdown on Pakistan Tehree-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders and activists and have picked up over three dozen more party workers for being allegedly involved in violence during a rally at Teen Talwar over the weekend, as reported by Dawn.
The Pakistan-based news daily reported that the officials raided the premises just before a PTI's general body meeting and stopped members from entering the premises, warning them that they would have to face consequences.
PTI founder Imran Khan's lawyer, Barrister Ali Zafar stressed that the accountability court announced the verdict in a 'hurry' after knowing that the party was approaching the Islamabad High Court in the Toshakhana case.
An Accountability Court (AC) in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 years in jail in the Toshakhana case, ARY News reported.
Ali Zafar said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf will challenge the sentence given to Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi after receiving a detailed verdict in the cypher case
The cypher case involves a diplomatic document that the Federal Investigation Agency alleges was never returned by Imran, with the PTI asserting the document contained a threat from the United States to remove Imran as prime minister.
In a post on the social media platform 'X', PTI shared several videos showing party workers being dragged by police personnel during the political rally.
The Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) District Monitoring Office issued a notice to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shoaib Shaheen on Saturday for allegedly violating the Code of Conduct (CoC) in Islamabad, reported ARY News.