LAHORE: Seven members of the Punjab League High Command, [including] Mian Mumtaz Daultana, Sardar Shaukat Hyat Khan, Malik Feroze Khan Noon [etc] were arrested in Lahore on Friday [Jan 24] following their opposition to police who had come to search the office of the Muslim National Guards, declared unlawful by the Punjab Government… . Thirty Muslim students were arrested … when they took out a procession from Nila Gumbad. The procession was stopped by the police on the Kachery Road and dispersed after arresting the leaders of the procession. The total number of arrests has so far risen to 51 adds an API report.

Khan of Mamdot in an interview to ‘Dawn’ representatives, said: “We are courting arrest to vindicate civic liberties in the Punjab, where an unrepresentative ministry, in order to help itself in power, is resorting to most objectionable methods to gag popular liberties.” … Amidst thunderous shouts of ‘Zinadabad’ they were taken to police lock-up. Lahore Muslims observed complete hartal. Large police force, on Friday morning, converged on Provincial League Head­quarters in pursuance of search warrants issued by the Additional Magistrate, Lahore, under the Criminal Law Amendment Act for searching National Guards Office.

Published in Dawn, January 25th, 2022