SHC orders release of 35 more PTI workers held under MPO

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The Sindh High Court has ordered the release of over 35 more PTI workers and supporters who were detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).

A two-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh also came down heavily on the provincial authorities concerned for shifting the custody of political prisoners from Karachi to jails in the interior parts of the province and ordered them to bring back those who were still kept there.

The bench ordered the respondents to shift the custody of the remaining prisoners from the detention facilities of interior Sindh to Karachi jails.

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