KARACHI: Scores of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers gathered outside Governor's House on Friday to lodge a protest against what a senior party leader said arrest of workers in a police raid on Thursday.
"We want to condemn arrest of our workers here since the governor is a representative of federation," said Arif Alvi, senior PTI leader and a National Assembly Member from Karachi.
Commuters were facing difficulties the protest caused a gridlock in the centre of the metropolis. A large number of policemen was deployed around the governor's house to maintain peace.
Police on Thursday arrested over 100 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) as they gathered in Sector E-11 area to attend a Youth Convention ahead of party’s planned “lockdown” of the federal capital and hours after Islamabad High Court’s order against the PTI’s plan.
The government says PTI workers were arrested for violation of section 144 under which the party was not allowed to hold a gathering in the federal capital.
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