Senior Vice President Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been detained in the Attock Rajanpur jail for 30 days after he voluntarily gave himself up for arrest to Lahore police as part of the party’s Jail Bharro Tehreek.
In the videos circulating around social media, the PTI leaders including Senior Vice President Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Senator Azam Swati and others can be seen wilfully climbing into a prison van.
Later, PTI Vice President Fawad Chaudhry stated that around 500-700 PTI workers had given themselves up for arrest. Chaudhry claimed that the police had arrived prepared with police vans but were “worried after seeing the thousands of people perplexed about their next move.