FAISALABAD, Feb 7: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a demonstration on Sunday (today) to protest against the arrest of its three leaders.

Special police teams had arrested MMA District president Sardar Zafar Hussain, District Amir JI Azeem Randhawa and activist Abdul Kareem from their houses on Thursday night. Former MPA Malik Muhammad Din escaped arrest because he was not at his house.

Speaking at a news conference here on Saturday, MMA's district acting president Sheikh Abdul Islam Fani, Jamaat-i-Islami acting district amir Mahboobuz Zaman Butt and others alleged that the alliance leaders were picked up from their houses by police teams without showing them any warrants.

They said the MMA men were bundled into police wagons like animals and were shifted to some unknown place.

They said that the MMA leaders had tried their best to see the arrested men but to no avail.

They alleged that MMA leaders were arrested to stop them from raising voice against the government.

The police source claimed that the arrests had been made after registration of a case against them under 16 MPO by the Kotwali police for making provocative speeches against the government during a Kashmir Day rally.

ELECTROCUTED: A resident of Chak 199 RB was killed when he accidentally touched a live electricity wires on Friday night.