KARACHI: On Wednesday PTI Sindh leaders and workers from Sindh want the federal government to change the province’s inspector-general of police, Mushtaq Mahar.
They gathered outside the Karachi Press Club to protest the PPP-led Sindh government over an alleged ongoing crackdown on the party’s workers and the arrest and alleged mistreatment of Sindh Assembly opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh.
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PTI lawmakers elected from Karachi, including former opposition leader Firdous Shamim Naqvi, parliamentary leader Bilal Ghaffar, Karachi president Khurram Sherzaman, Saeed Afridi, Arsalan Taj, Jamal Siddiqui, Ramzan Ghanchi, Raja Azhar, Rabistan Khan, Riaz Haider, Adeel Ahmed, Dua Bhutto, and MNA Jay Parakash Lohana attended the protest.
The protesters expressed the hope that Prime Minister Imran Khan will take “strict notice” of what had happened to Sheikh.
They condemned Sheikh’s arrest and harassment which, they said, he continues to face during detention. They said fake terrorism cases registered against the PTI leader were proof the Sindh government feared him.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah had given instructions for the arrest of Sheikh and others, the PTI leaders alleged.
“Asif Ali Zardari proudly stated that there was no political prisoner in his tenure. But what you say now. Haleem Adil Sheikh is in your own province,” Senator Shibli Faraz said.