- PML-N and PTI workers clashed at ECP office
- PML-N leader had gone to the hospital
- Rana Mahmood has submitted his nomination papers
MULTAN: Within hours after detaining, police on Wednesday released Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Senator Rana Mahmood ul Hassan, who was arrested for involvement in clash with the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf workers before the ECP office in Multan.
Police said the senator was not present at the time of the clash in the ECP office.
Police on Wednesday arrested Rana Mahmood along with few party workers from Nishtar Hospital in Multan.
The PML-N leader had gone to the hospital to visit injured party workers, who were injured in the clash between the PML-N and PTI workers at the ECP office. Rana Mahmood has submitted his nomination papers from NA-156 as well.
On the other hand, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Amir Dogar and others have been arrested in Multan in the aftermaths of a clash outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) district office on Wednesday.
According to Bol News TV, Amir Dogar has been detained from his house by the police in Multan.
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Moreover, the police have also arrested 12 PTI workers along with former MNA.
Talking to the Bol News TV, PTI senior vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi and senior leader Asad Umar condemned the arrest of Amir Dogar and workers and termed it worst political victimisation.
Fawad Hussain Chaudhry has called the arrest a part of Court Arrest movement.
The case of stone pelting and fighting at the office of the ECP has been registered.
On the other hand, the large number of the PTI workers protested the arrest of Amir Dogar and activists outside the Dogar House in Multan. They raised slogans in favour of Dogar and against the imported government.
Till filing the report, the PTI activists set tyres on fire and blocked the roads in protest and demanded the immediate release of Dogar and the party workers.
In a statement, District Election Commissioner Saleem Akhtar said that political workers have vandalised the office of electoral watchdog and created chaos.
