PTI senior leader and former interior minister Shehryar Afridi has been arrested by the authorities from Islamabad under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order, reported 24NewsHD TV channel on Tuesday.
Police said Afridi was arrested from Sector F 8 in Islamabad.
Taking to its Twitter handle, the PTI wrote: “Ex-interior minister Shehryar Afridi has been picked up this time, not alone but along with his wife who has no political affiliation. This is happening under the current fascist regime.”
The police also arrested senior leader of PTI (Khyber Landi Kotal Chapter) Haji Zarbullah Shinwari alias Haji Baba and Landi Kotal Bazar Trade Union President Jafar Shinwari under Section 3 of the MPO.
Both the PTI Landi Kotal leaders are being shifted to the Peshawar Central Jail.
Yesterday, police also arrested PTI leader and former provincial minister Fayazul Hasan Chohan from Rawalpindi.
Police are working day and night to arrest the miscreants involved in the incidents of vandalism, violence, and arson attacks on public and private institutions throughout the country.
Arrests are being made by tracing and identifying the miscreants with the help of available footage and CCTV recordings of the incident.
The special Corps Commanders Conference (CCC) meeting held on Monday at the GHQ under the chair of Chief of Army Staff General Syed Asim Munir vowed to bring the arsonists, who attacked the civil and military installations, to justice through trial under relevant laws of the country, including Pakistan Army Act and Official Secrets Act.
“Based on the irrefutable evidence collected so far, armed forces are well aware of the planners, instigators, abettors and perpetrators of these attacks, and attempts to create distortions in this regard are absolutely futile,” claimed Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, in a statement.
Reporters Farzana Siddique and Jehanzeb Afridi