ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest, party’s Secretary General Asad Umar has been arrested from the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) premises.
The PTI leader was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Islamabad police.
His arrest comes a day after PTI Chairman Imran Khan was arrested from the Judicial Complex, and later the party’s Sindh leader Ali Zaidi was also arrested in Karachi.
Asad Umar was accompanied at the high court by fellow party leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar, Babar Awan, and other leaders and lawyers where they had appeared to file an application seeking permission to go to the Police Lines to meet PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
The PTI leaders were to leave for the Supreme Court from here, however before that the former minister was taken into custody.
Reportedly, Asad Umar has been shifted to the Ramna police station.
The former minister was among the first to call party supporters and workers for protest
Authorities had earlier allowed PTI lawyers Khawaja Haris, Barrister Gohar and Ali Bukhari to meet Imran Khan at the New Police Guest House, Police Lines.
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