Protest continues against arrest of PML-N Swat leaders

MINGORA: The leaders and activists of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and traders continued protest for the second consecutive day on Sunday against the arrest of two party workers.

Expressing unity with the party workers, the traders union shuttered down their shops and markets in protest in Kabal town. Speaking on the occasion, the party leaders including Habib Ali Shah, Muhammad Sher Khan, Ishtiaq Khan, Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Hussain, Alam Iqbal, Mufti Arifullah, Kashif Ghafoor and others criticised the government for subjecting the workers to political victimisation. “The government should think twice before inflicting atrocities on the opposition parties’ leaders, otherwise it would face the same tomorrow,” Khashif Ghafoor said.

They said the police were meant to safeguard the lives and properties of citizens but the government had made the police “kidnappers”. Meanwhile, addressing a press conference in the Swat Press Club, PML-N district president Qaimoos Khan, general secretary Syed Habib Ali Shah, Malik Fida Muhammad Khan and others announced to register a case against the Federal Minister for Communications Murad Saeed and OGDCL official Mir Wais, holding them responsible for the arrest-cum-abduction of PML-N Kabal tehsil president Abdul Ghafoor and former tehsil councilor Usman Ghani. They said the driver and car of the missing workers were still at the police station, adding that they contacted the district police officer and deputy commissioner but they expressed their ignorance.