Jail Bharo Tehreek: The senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, and Azam Swati, along with party workers voluntarily surrendered themselves to the Lahore police.
According to the media reports, the PTI Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement) kicked off Wednesday in Lahore. The movement aims to counter the attack on constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights and the economic meltdown by the incumbent government.
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The Lahore police barred everyone including officials, from entering the Capital City Police Office (CCPO) as the crowd grew more sizable. Many of the PTI senior leaders and activists boarded a prison van, with several workers also climbing onto the roof of the van.
The Police clarified that these arrests were entirely voluntary, and they did not arrest them. They have come and sat in the prison van of their own discretion, police said.
Other Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders who climbed onto the police vehicle include former Punjab governor Omar Sarfaraz Cheema. However, several PTI women workers were also present outside the CCPO building and many lay on the road, demanding that they be arrested. The workers then got down from the police van and made their way toward Charing Cross.
