TIMERGARA: Pakistan Peoples Party former MPA Mohammad Zamin Advocate reached home after his release from Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, on Saturday.

The former lawmaker was arrested by Islamabad police during the PPP workers protest near the NAB building a few days ago.

The freed PPP leader was taken to his hometown in Odigram in a vehicular procession.

The PPP workers welcomed him at Talash, Timergara and Odigram.

Talking to mediapersons and party workers, the former MPA said he was kept with terrorists at the jail near a washroom. He said he was also denied anti-diabetic medicine by the jail authorities.

He said he had gone to Islamabad to express solidarity with party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, but the Islamabad police beat up the peaceful party workers and arrested them.

He said imprisonment, violence and cases could not suppress the PPP leaders and workers.

Meanwhile, a 58-year-old widow went missing from her house in Biarai Bala area of Balambat. Sher Ali, nephew of widow Bakht Zadgai, told journalists on Saturday that his aunt went out of her brother’s house four days ago and did not return. He said the missing woman was mentally retarded.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2019