Pakistani police Friday raided the home of Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, President of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion and former Chief Minister of Punjab. At his residence in Lahore, 500 police and anti-corruption personnel tried to arrest Elhai, however failed to take action after going through resistance from his supporters. Following the occasions of the raid, police registered a case in opposition to Elhai on terrorism fees for the alleged violent actions of his supporters.
The operation lasted round 5 hours, with an armoured automobile getting used to interrupt by way of the gates of Elhai’s residence. Supporters and staff of Elhai had been stated to have used stones, batons, and petrol bombs in opposition to the police and Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officers finishing up the raid. After failing to arrest Elhai, who evaded the arrest by fleeing his home earlier than police arrived, the operation ended early Saturday. At the very least twelve folks had been arrested because of the raid.
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan and distinguished political determine, Imran Khan, condemned the “unlawful raid” in a press release issued to social media:
We’re seeing the dismantling of democracy in Pak earlier than our eyes. There is no such thing as a respect for Structure, SC verdicts, or elementary rights of the ppl – solely legislation of jungle and facism . . . They attacked my home & now identical being completed to Pervez Elahi by cabal of crooks & handlers. By no means seen such barbarism even in Musharraf’s martial legislation . . . sufficient is sufficient.
Khan, who’s a powerful ally of Parvez Elahi, completed his assertion by saying he can be issuing a “roadmap” following the occasion, that explains learn how to “rise up in opposition to this destruction of our Structure and democracy.”
Source / Picture: jurist.org
