LAHORE, June 14: The Human Rights Network, Pakistan, has filed a writ petition with the Lahore High Court challenging the arrest and detention of 83 political workers. It will come up for hearing on Friday (today).

In the petition filed against the Punjab home secretary, rights network president Zafar Iqbal Baloch and secretary-general Ziauddin Ansari have submitted that political workers are being rounded up without any arrest and detention orders in their names.

Blank arrest and detention orders had been supplied to police stations. Police are simply entering the names of hauled up workers in their orders and sending them to jails away from their home districts in violation of fundamental rights. —Reporter