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The police registered a cases against 1,500 workers of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) for staging a rally organized to accompany the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to the Kot Lakhpat Jail on expiry of his six-week bail.
On Thursday, the Kot Lakhpat police booked PML-N workers for staging a rally, blocking the traffic and railway tracks under several sections of the Pakistan Penal Code and the Railways Act of 1890 when they escorted the PML-N Quaid to jail.
Have asked PML-N Lhr to assist the workers & offer every help but look how terrified they are of PML-N. If there’s anyone who needs help, pls contact me. pic.twitter.com/b91nk3jKWX
— Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) May 9, 2019
The police accused the workers of creating nuisance for the general public by blocking the railway track and both sides of the Ferozepur Road near Shanghai Bridge of Chungi Amar Sidhu. The FIR also states that they shouted slogans against the PTI government in Punjab.
PML-N Spokesperson Condemns
PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb strongly condemned the government’s move of lodging a criminal case against the party workers.
Imran Khan, PAT chief Tahirul Qadri and several other leaders and workers were booked over their alleged involvement in the attack during the 2014 sit-ins in the capital.
Aurangzeb said neither the PML-N workers had attacked the parliament nor did they announce a civil disobedience movement against the government as Prime Minister Imran Khan had done when he was in the opposition. She said Imran Khan had also threatened to ‘drag the police personnel’ deputed at that time in Islamabad.
“Instead of abusing the government, the PML-N workers were peacefully accompanying their beloved leader Nawaz Sharif,” she said and lamented that registration of the FIR in the regime of ‘selected Prime Minister Imran Niazi’ would be remembered as a cruel decision.
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Imran Khan, PAT chief Tahirul Qadri and several other leaders and workers were booked over their alleged involvement in the attack during the 2014 sit-ins in the capital.