The PTI’s lawyers wing, the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF), approached the Peshawar High Court on Thursday for constituting a high-powered joint investigation team (JIT) to probe the incidents of violence across the province on May 9 and 10, “killing of innocent party workers” and several other related issues.

Filed by ILF provincial organiser Qazi Mohammad Anwar, the petition said the JIT should conduct an independent forensic investigation into the protests to fix responsibility and unearth the hidden hands behind the destruction of government properties including Radio Pakistan Peshawar, Chaghi Monument and properties in Swat, Mardan, and Swabi.

The petitioner claimed that the provincial administration issued blank detention orders and as soon as PTI workers and leaders were arrested their names were filled in those blank preventive detention orders under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance.

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