PML-N workers, leaders arrested for violating section 144

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More than a hundred local leaders and workers of PML-N have been arrested for flouting the ban on congregations and rallying and obstructing a National Accountability Bureau’s official from arresting retired Captain Mohammed Safdar.

Dawn reports today that:

The police said the PML-N workers had taken out protest rallies in violation of section 144 and their participants had obstructed the arrest of Mohammad Safdar. The city police officer said that police crackdown would continue until the arrest of all violators of the section.

Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz are set to return to the country on Friday, and more rallies are expected throughout Punjab tomorrow.

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