FAISALABAD: The police uprooted PPP camps set up at Khurrianwala while 70 party activists intending to attend the ARD moot in Lahore were also taken into custody in Faisalabad and adjoining areas on Sunday.

Reports said that office bearers and activists of the PPP and the PML-N were asked to gather at camps at 2pm, but the police pulled up all these camps early on Sunday morning.

The police carried out the action before the arrival of any caravan and started raiding houses, shops and outhouses of party office bearers and activists to arrest them, sources in the PPP claimed.

They said police failed to pick up any prominent figure and that they managed to reach Lahore and participated in the ARD moot. They said the police had also impounded their 17 buses.

It was learnt that all political activists taken into custody had been shifted to some undisclosed location.

A police officer also confirmed the arrest of PPP activists, but said no case had been registered against them. He said all the arrested activists would soon be released.