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PTI Sindh President Syed Ali Haider Zaidi arrested in Karachi

KARACHI, April 15 (SABAH): Sindh police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh President Syed Ali Haider Zaidi from the party’s provincial secretariat in Karachi, PTI claimed on Saturday.

Sources said that Ali Zaidi had been shifted to an unknown place after the arrest. “He is arrested in connection with the case lodged against him a day ago at the Ibrahim Haidri police station,” sources added.

Malir investigation and operations unit arrested Ali Zaidi in connection with the commitment of alleged fraud of Rs17 billion, sources told.

Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh demanded Ali Zaidi’s release saying, “The police have arrested Ali Zaidi from the party’s secretariat without any arrest warrants.”

The fascist imported government was victimising the PTI, he said.

PTI’s social media account shared a CCTV footage of the arrest showing how police broke into the secretariat and dragged Ali  Zaidi out of his office after he had tried to resist a civvie apparently asking him to come out.

Taking to Twitter, PTI leader Farrukh Habib claimed that the police took Zaidi into custody from the party’s Sindh office.

In a video shared by PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry, plain clothes men accompanied by police can be seen arresting the senior PTI leader from its office in Khayaban-e-Bukhari, DHA.

Fawad said that Zaidi was arrested “without any arrest warrant”. It is not known yet in which case he was taken into custody.

Strongly condemning the arrest of Zaidi, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said: “All part of the London Plan where Nawaz given assurances PTI would be crushed.”

Taking to Twitter, Imran Khan maintained that over 3000 PTI workers have been arrested, abducted or terrorized so far.

“Ali Amin & now Ali Zaidi abducted. A new plan underway for more,” he warned.

“They think this will weaken us in case elections are held. Let me state categorically this will not work. People’s anger only increasing & they will see the blowback of this nefarious London Plan in elections.”

PTI Senior Vice President Shireen Mazari called the arrest “condemnable and illegal”.