Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has officially demanded the instant launch of citizens from his province who had been arrested following the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest in Islamabad on November 24. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Gandapur condemned the arrest of the province’s residents, terming their detention illegal and a violation in their primary human rights. Gandapur’s letter comes after a chain of confrontations between PTI protestors and law enforcement at some point of the protest in Islamabad. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM asserted that the arrests in particular focused workers from his province, notwithstanding their peaceful participation within the protest prepared via PTI management. In the letter, Gandapur highlighted the unjust treatment of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa residents who, he argued, have been unfairly centered after the PTI protest march from D-Chowk. “This is a blatant violation of the fundamental rights of our residents,” he wrote, urging for their instantaneous launch. The November 24 protest march, to begin with led through PTI chairman Imran Khan, became observed by means of an indication in Islamabad that covered key PTI figures which includes Bushra Bibi and Ali Amin Gandapur. Following clashes with police on November 26, the protest turned chaotic, ensuing within the fleeing of protest leaders, along with Bushra Bibi and Ali Amin Gandapur, who left for Mansehra thru Haripur that evening. Meanwhile, the majority of protestors dispersed and back home. Subsequent reports emerged suggesting a high range of casualties in the course of the protest. Ali Amin Gandapur, along side PTI General Secretary Salman Akram Raja and Sardar Latif Khosa, claimed a couple of fatalities because of alleged firing by using regulation enforcement. However, federal officials, inclusive of Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar, rejected these claims, stressful proof of such incidents. In the aftermath of the protest, Islamabad and Rawalpindi police arrested around 1,four hundred individuals, accusing them of undertaking violent protests, damaging property, and blocking off roads. Several PTI leaders, consisting of Imran Khan, Ali Amin Gandapur, and Aleema Khan, had been named within the instances, with anti-terrorism charges additionally included. The detained protestors, consisting of former President Dr. Arif Alvi, Opposition Leader within the National Assembly Omar Ayub, Senator Azam Swati, and lots of other local PTI leaders, had been accused of inciting violence and disrupting public order all through the protest.
