On Monday morning, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders Salman Akram Raja and Sardar Latif Khosa were released from custody. Their arrests occurred as part of nationwide protests staged by PTI leaders and workers on Sunday, denouncing alleged rigging in the February 8 general election and the purported theft of mandate.
Protests organized by PTI leaders and supporters unfolded in various cities, including Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Karachi, Kandhkot, Tank, and more. Shehbaz Khosa, in a statement, expressed concern about his father’s arrest by the Cantt station house officer (SHO), stating, “We have no information about where the police have taken him [Latif Khosa].”
In connection with the protest against election irregularities, the police also detained PTI-backed provincial assembly member Hafiz Farhat Abbas. Similarly, senior party leader and lawyer Salman Akram Raja were arrested from Lahore’s Ichhra.
