KARACHI: The Karachi police on Sunday detained many members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who took half in a motorcycle rally organised to specific solidarity with imprisoned PTI chief Imran Khan, Pak native media reported.
Soldier Bazaar Station Home Officer (SHO) Pir Shabbir Haider instructed Daybreak that police had detained 20-25 folks from the spot “just to disperse them to avoid traffic congestion in the busy area”.
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The PTI occasion in Karachi introduced the rally on Saturday as half of a bigger countrywide occasion.
“Solidarity rally with Imran Khan, who is currently facing unjust treatment in Attock jail. It is disheartening to see his fundamental rights being violated, with the jail manual not being implemented in his case. We invite all Karachites to stand together and raise [their] voice for Khan,” Khurram Sher Zaman, president of the PTI’s Karachi chapter, had posted on X (previously Twitter) a day in the past, in line with Daybreak.
One other submit on his account said the rally would start from Nursery and would conclude at Quaid’s Mausoleum.
Imran was arrested on August 5 after an Islamabad trial courtroom charged him responsible of “corrupt practices” within the Toshakhana case and sentenced him to a few years in jail.
He was locked in Attock jail after his arrest, and his occasion has raised issues relating to dwelling situations within the jail, Daybreak reported.
Zaman said that since final evening and in the course of the march, police had detained round 140 employees.
In a separate assertion, Zaman mentioned that Sindh police had baton-charged the rally individuals, saying that “scaring and harassing” the individuals of the rally was a “shameful act”.
“What happened to the right to assemble and participate in a peaceful rally?” he questioned on X, the place he additionally posted a video of police baton-charging folks purportedly taking part in Sunday’s rally.
In the meantime, in a special assertion, Zaman mentioned that Sindh police had baton-charged the rally individuals, saying that “scaring and harassing” the individuals of the rally was a “shameful act”.
“What message do Sindh police want to give by violating democratic norms? Sindh police need to mend their ways,” he added.
SHO Haider, nonetheless, refuted accusations that he baton-charged rally individuals.
Though no policemen may very well be seen placing a rally attendee with a baton within the clip proven on Daybreak, cops may very well be seen wielding batons.
Photographs from the event additionally clearly confirmed that cops had used pressure, Daybreak reported.