ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and former minister Ali Zaidi was arrested in southern port city of Karachi on Saturday.
The news about Zaidi’s arrest was shared by PTI leader Farrukh Habib, saying the former minister was arrested by police from party’s Sindh office.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson of Zaidi has also confirmed the development, saying the police had taken the PTI Sindh’s president into their custody.
PTI سندھ آفس سے پارٹی کے صوبائی صدر علی حیدر زیدی سندھ پولیس نے گرفتار کرلیا ہے
— Farrukh Habib (@FarrukhHabibISF) April 15, 2023
Reports said that the PTI stalwart was arrested in case registered at the Ibrahim Haideri police station under threatening and fraud charges. The case was registered by a citizen named Fazal earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan strongly condemned the arrest, calling it part of “London plan where former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was given assurances that PTI would be crushed”.
“Over 3,000 PTI workers arrested, abducted, terrorised. Ali Amin & now Ali Zaidi abducted. A new plan underway for more,” he added.
Imran Khan feared that police may raid his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after 27th Ramadan or Eidul Fitr.
“They think this will weaken us in case elections are held. Let me state categorically this will not work. People’s anger [is] only increasing and they will see the blowback of this nefarious London Plan in elections,” he further said.
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