November 19, 2007	Monday	Ziqa’ad 08, 1428

GUJAR KHAN, Nov 18: Over 16 activists of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), including former MPA Raja Tariq Kiani, were sent to Adiala jail on Sunday after they were arrested during two anti-government rallies in Gujar Khan city and at Mandra Toll Plaza on Saturday.

They were booked by the police under 16 MPO.

Those who have been sent to Adiala jail include Raja Syed Ghalib Shah, Syed Sher Shah, Alhaj Farrukh, Tahir Raheel advocate, Raja Shaukat Hayat, Raja Imran Kami, Farrukh

Sial, Azmat Sial, Nisar Sial, Rizwan Qureshi, Afzal Shah, Malik Ejaz, Atif Mahmood and Zamir Shah.

While being embarked on the Adiala jail-bound prisoner van, the PPP activists chanted slogans in support of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and party chairperson Benazir Bhutto.

The detained activists also applied for bail with the Gujar Khan magistrate, who would take up their pleas on Monday.

Meanwhile, PPP Secretary-General and former MNA Raja Pervez Ashraf and Raja Tanveer Akhtar advocate, who were taken to the civil lines police station, Rawalpindi, after being arrested from Mandra Toll Plaza on Saturday, were released on Sunday.