No quick relief for court-arrested PTI leaders,

RAWALPINDI (Dunya NEWS) – In an effort to fill the jails in their court arrest drive, 80 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders and workers including Fayazul Hassan, Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Abbasi, Waheed Qasim and Ijaz Khan Jazi were arrested on Friday.

Fayazul Hassan reached Committee Chowk in the form of a rally and presented himself for arrest and he voluntarily sat in the police van. Mr Chauhan said neither he nor his family would seek the bail and 10 PTI workers also got themselves arrested with him.https://twitter.com/i/status/1629060280306094081

After Mr Chauhan, Zulfi Bukhari and Sheikh Rashid reached Committee Chowk for arrest. However, only Mr Bukhari got detained while Mr Rashid went away in his car.

Meanwhile, Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen leader Allama Nasir Abbas also arrived to support the PTI in the court arrest drive.https://twitter.com/i/status/1629080029270351875

Earlier, as the Jail Bharo Movement (JBT) entered Rawalpindi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fayazul Hassan Chauhan and other activists flocked to the chowk on Friday to court arrest but police did not arrest anyone.

Mr Chauhan said he sat in the prisoner van to honour PTI chief Imran Khan’s call for the movement. “I shall neither appraoch court for bail nor will my familyl do so,” he added. He would, he said, not appeal for the bail until Mr Khan directed so.

PTI activists were seen entering the prisoner van and posing pictures.

The Jail Bharo Movement (JBT) incepted by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Feb 22 moved to Rawalpindi today (Friday) after shows in Lahore and Peshawar.

Sources said the PTI leaders and activists would court arrest at Committee Chowk and outside RA Bazaar police station. “The Rawalpindi police had decided against arresting those surrendering voluntarily and they will arrest only those disturbing peace,” sources added. The police, sources said, would not transfer the prisoners to Adiala jail as it was stuffed with prisoners exceeding its capacity.

Nine police vans and 20 buses have been put on standby but section 144 has not yet been imposed in the city.

Earlier,

There was no quick relief for nine senior PTI leaders who were court-arrested as part of party’s Jail Bharo campaign as the Lahore High Court adjourned hearing of a plea seeking their “recovery”,

The petition was filed to seek release of PTI leaders including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Azam Swati, Waleed Iqbal, Asad Umar, Murad Ras, Umar Cheema, Muhammad Khan Madni, Azam Niazi and Ahsan Dogar.

LHC’s Justice Shahram Sarwar Chaudhry took up the petition on Friday, directing Punjab government’s counsel to present a report in the court on February 27 after getting instructions from the government.

The judged observed that they first himself surrendered to authorities and now they were urging the court to call them. “This way they are burdening the court,” he said.

The petitioner’s lawyer argued that the government should present them in court.

On this point Justice Shahram remarked first present arguments about the admissibility of the petition.

Justice Sharam again said that the PTI leader had offered themselves for arrest, they themselves went inside the police trucks. “Was not this happened,” the judge inquired from the petitioner’s lawyer whose positive nod was the cause of much hilarity in the courtroom.

The judge again asked the lawyer: “Your clients are in pain because they were sent out of Lahore.” The lawyer responded that the government should submit some kind of notice in this regard in court.

The judge again addressed the lawyer asking him to request the Home Department to place the PTI leaders under detention at their homes.

The courtroom roared  into laughter over judge’s suggestion to Zain Qureshi, who complained that the family was not being allowed to meet his father and senior PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi.

Justice Shahram remarked that meeting Shah Mehmood Qureshi is not a hard nut to crack. “You too should surrender to police at Charing Cross and then you can meet your father in jail,” he added.

The court adjourning the hearing until Monday.