MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former member national assembly (MNA) Amir Dogar and several other party workers were arrested in Multan on Wednesday.
Police carried out a raid at Amir Dogar’s guest house in Multan and arrested the PTI leader for chaos the workers created out-side the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) during the submission of nomination papers. A brawl also erupted between the workers of PTI and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Mr Dogar was arrested along with more than a dozen party work-ers.
The scuffle started when PML-N’s Sheikh Tariq Rasheed and PTI’s Amir Dogar were going to file the nomination papers along with their workers for the NA-155 by-elections.
Workers from both parties pelted each other with stones and threw flower pots towards each other. After the clash, the police ar-rested Sheikh Tariq Rasheed and Malik Anwar from Nishtar Hospital.
Condemnations over Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leader Amir Dogar’s arrest poured in from the party leadership. PTI sec-retary general and former federal minister Asad Umar
and Fawad Chaudhry strongly condemned the former lawmaker’s arrest. –Agencies
