GUJRANWALA, April 4: The police on Monday formally arrested MMA’s MMA Qazi Hamidullah, his son Kafayatullah and two others under terrorism charges for disrupting Sunday’s marathon and torching vehicles. They were produced before local anti-terrorism Court judge Mirza Rafi who sent them to the Central Jail on seven days judicial remand.

The same court also sent 73 MMA activists to the central jail on judicial remand who were arrested on Friday on charge of taking out processions against the government during wheel jam.

The Civil Lines police have registered cases against 600 MMA activists, including Hamidullah. Twenty of them are stated to be in custody.

Meanwhile, a large number

of police and elite force

personnel ringed Sheranwala Bagh on GT Road when they learnt that MMA activists

were about to take out a procession to protest Saturday’s

police action and their leaders’ arrests.

DPO Dr Arif Mushtaq and other senior officers held a dialogue with protest leaders and made them not to take out the rally.

MMA leaders Hafiz Hussain Ahmad and Liaqat Baloch visited the DHQ hospital to see the injured MNA and others. Later they addressed alliance workers at the Sheranwala mosque.

MEETING: The MMA supreme council meets in Lahore on Wednesday to decide its ‘future course’ of action. The alliance will observe a ‘protest day’ in the city on Friday if arrested activists, including the MNA, are not released.

This was stated by Hafiz Hussain Ahmad and Liaqat Baloch at a news conference at Sheranwala mosque. They defended their workers’ action and said the government was promoting obscenity.

They gave four days deadline to the district administration to get register cases against those policemen who opened fire and injured the MNA and others.