ISLAMABAD
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser has said that the party\u2019s protest movement\u2019s second phase would be held on August 14 \u2014 the country\u2019s independence day. \u201cThe second phase of our protest will be on August 14, then we will go to Sindh,\u201d Qaiser said in Swabi late Tuesday night as the party took to the streets to mark the second anniversary of party founder Imran Khan\u2019s incarceration and demand his release.
\nA day earlier, police arrested more than 240 opposition party activists, with at least 122 arrested trying to block roads and threatening law and order in Lahore, said Deputy Inspector General of police Faisal Kamran. A PTI supporter is being detained by police officers during a nationwide protest demanding Imran Khans release, on the second anniversary of his jailing, in Lahore on August 5, 2025. \u2014 Reuters
\nA PTI supporter is being detained by police officers during a nationwide protest demanding Imran Khan\u2019s release, on the second anniversary of his jailing, in Lahore on August 5, 2025. \u2014 Reuters The remainder were picked up in overnight raids in the province, two security officials said. Party spokesperson Zulfikar Bukhari said over 200 activists were detained in Lahore alone. At least seven members of the Punjab Assembly were also arrested in Lahore, media reported, quoting Zulfikar Bukhari.
\nThe police, however, released the PTI lawmakers in the evening. In a statement, the Punjab police said that Deputy Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Moeen Riaz Qureshi, MPs Farrukh Javed Moon, Khawaja Salahuddin, Shoaib Amir, Amanullah Khan, and Iqbal Khattak, had been released. A police officer fires teargas to disperse PTI supporters during a nationwide protest demanding Khans release on the second anniversary of his jailing, in Karachi on August 5, 2025. \u2014 Reuters
\nA police officer fires teargas to disperse PTI supporters during a nationwide protest demanding Khan\u2019s release on the second anniversary of his jailing, in Karachi on August 5, 2025. \u2014 Reuters Rehana Dar, who was among those detained from outside Aiwan-e-Adal, was released, the PTI central media cell confirmed.
\nThe arrests came as the authorities had beefed up security imposing Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) \u2014 barring illegal gatherings and large assemblies.Section 144 was imposed in Islamabad as well as Rawalpindi \u2014 which also houses Adiala Jail where the PTI founder is incarcerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser has said that the party\u2019s protest movement\u2019s second phase would be held on August 14 \u2014 the country\u2019s independence day. \u201cThe second phase of our protest will be on August 14, then we will go to Sindh,\u201d Qaiser said in Swabi late …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85013,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85011\/revisions\/85013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}