PTI workers arrested as police thwart workers’ convention

CM Naqvi says only people will clean record allowed political activities,

Shaikh Rashid says seeking amnesty for those involved in May 9 is his mission now

Lahore_Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Sunday said that any person having a criminal record will not be allowed to hold a convention. This was said in response to arrest of 55 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers from Lahore earlier in the day.

The police arrested 55 PTI workers from Lahore’s Kahna area despite prior permission granted by the district administration for holding a workers’ convention.

The police raided the office of the PTI leader responsible for organizing the convention.

During this operation, the police reportedly caused collateral damage by breaking windows and tearing down party banners and posters.

The district administration’s initial decision to deny permission for PTI to hold the rally in constituency NA-123 Kahna had prompted the political party to approach the Lahore High Court (LHC).

The court’s verdict was unambiguous that if PTI was not allowed to hold their gathering, then nobody should have the privilege of doing so.

But today, the party’s workers’ convention was thwarted.

In this regard, CM Naqvi said that “anyone with a criminal record will not be allowed to attend the convention.”

He stated that permission will only be granted to a person with a clean record.

Earlier,

Former federal minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) Chief Sheikh Rasheed has said that it is now his mission to seek amnesty for those involved in the May 9 riots and they have been hiding since then, In a statement on social media platform X, he said that he was grateful to the entire nation and the mothers, sisters, and daughters through whose prayers he had been released after 40 days.

“I do not know at which place I spent the ‘chilla’, but I was not hurt during the time,” he said.

“Now the mission of my life is to seek amnesty for all those who committed a mistake on May 9 and have been in hiding since then, and for all those innocent people who have been in jails since May 9,” he added.

He appealed to the entire nation to support him in this peaceful mission on X. “I have never appealed on Twitter. Today, I am appealing for the first time to join me in my mission to appeal for amnesty to those who committed a wrong on May 9.”

He added: “I am going to start my mission from tomorrow. The prayers of the nation are needed. Inshallah, success will be our destiny, and Allah will make us successful in this mission with the prayers of mothers, sisters and daughters.”