(22 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Islamabad, Pakistan – 22 July 2024
1. Various of Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) workers and police personnel outside PTI’s Islamabad office
2. Various of PTI workers chanting
3. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Shumaila Haidar, PTI worker:
“Rauf Hasan and people working in our office have been picked up. It’s a shame that they are picking up our staff who are salaried individuals. They should at least spare the employees.”
4. Security officials near PTI office
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gohar Ali Khan, Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) Chairman:
“We are ready for arrest if there is an arrest. We have to be arrested for some reason, we have not committed any offence to be arrested. Every single person is picked up and taken without any charges, kept in isolation, even family members don’t know where they are. We are ready for any eventuality but at no point of time have I been arrested.”
6. Various of PTI leaders and workers outside their office
STORYLINE:
Pakistan’s police raided the imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s political party office in Islamabad on Monday and arrested its spokesman for carrying out anti-state propaganda, the Interior Ministry said.
In a statement, the ministry said officers also arrested Ahmad Janjua, a media coordinator for Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf or PTI party.
Janjua was arrested over the weekend in a separate raid.
The arrests have drawn criticism from Gohar Ali Khan, the chairman of PTI, who said authorities also arrested some other workers of the party’s media wing, in a series of police raids in recent weeks.
Pakistani authorities often accuse the PTI of running a campaign against the country’s institutions, a reference to the military, a charge the party denies.
Khan has been embroiled in more than 150 cases since 2022 when he was ousted through a vote of no-confidence in the parliament.
He has been held at a prison in the garrison city of Rawalpindi since last year after his arrest.
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