PTI’s Sher Afzal Marwat detained, released

BATKHELA/NOWSHERA: A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat was briefly detained in the Gulabad area on Friday.

Sources said that Marwat was on way to Bajaur when the police stopped him at the checpoint in Batkhela. However, a large number of PTI workers gathered there and staged a protest.

This forced the law-enforecent agency personnel to allow the PTI leader to proceed towards his destination. DIG Muhammad Ali Khan denied the arrest of Sher Afzal. “He was not arrested anywhere in Malakand division,” the DIG said. 

Earlier addressing a workers’ convention in Nowshera Kalan locality, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sher Afzal Marwat said that a movement would be launched across the country if the government did not stop registering ‘fake’ cases against his party leaders and workers.

He said the country’s judicial system had paralyzed, adding the people of Pakistan would provide justice to former prime minister Imran Khan. He said that the PTI workers were being harassed. Sharing a message of PTI leader Imran Khan, who is in jail, Marwat said the party leaders and workers had been asked to fight the opportunists from Nowshera and end their politics. He said that the ones talking about minus-one should bite the dust. He said that the PTI activists would not spare the ones making baseless allegations against Imran Khan and his wife. He said that the people of Nowshera had proved that they stood by Imran Khan, not Pervez Khattak. . Marwat said that it was Imran Khan, who served the people of Nowshera. He said that Pervez Khattak was now taking credit for the uplift projects, including Bus Rapid Transit and Sehat Sahulat Card, executed during the PTI government in the province. He remarked that Pervez Khattak was the one who stabbed his benefactor in the back. He said that Pervez Khattak was a turncoat and opportunist. “History is witness to the fact that Pervez Khattak always enjoyed power and switched loyalty in search of greener pastures,” he remarked. He said that Pervez Khattak would face a humiliating defeat in the next general election.