50 activists arrested

Published November 18, 2007

GUJRANWALA, Nov 17: The police continued the crackdown on PPP activists and arrested 50 more for going on with their long march schedule and blocking traffic on the GT Road here on Saturday.

Over 100 PPP men had been rounded up on Friday evening while cases were registered under 16 MPO against 300 workers, including ex-MNA Imtiaz Safder Warraich, PPP district president Abdullah Virk, ex-MNA Chaudhry Manzoor Ahmad, MPA Ijaz Saman and Azher Hassan Dar. Police had also arrested about a dozen workers of PPP and PML-N after raiding their residences in Ghakkhar town.

Meanwhile, a local court on Saturday sent over 64 PPP activists to jail on judicial remand. They were apprehended from outside the old railway station on Friday.

Those who were sent to jail include, ex-MNA and PPP divisional president Imtiaz Safder Warraich, district president Abdullah Virk, MPAs Lala Shakeelur Rehman, Ijaz Ahmad Saman, former advisor Mian Azher Hassan Dar, People’s Labour Bureau divisional president Khalid Hussain Bajwa, Tariq Gujjar, former bar secretary-general Ahwer Tufail Warraich and Punjab Tehrik Insaf vice-president Khalid Zafar Sansi.

The judge adjourned the bail applications of arrested activists till Monday (tomorrow).

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