Islamabad Police on Wednesday arrested 316 PTI supporters for allegedly hitting police and spreading mayhem outside the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) on March 18 when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan came there for a court hearing in Toshakhana case.
On Saturday, as the former prime minister came to the FJC to attend a hearing, hours-long skirmishes were reported between PTI workers and the capital police.
A group of law enforcement officers and PTI supporters engaged in a violent altercation, using anti-riot gear and tear gas to push the other side back. Together with petrol bombs to set the police’s cars on fire, the PTI attacked the police with rocks.
Also, Imran and more than a dozen PTI leaders were named in a first information report (FIR) filed by the Islamabad Police that included terrorism-related allegations.
Today, the police claimed that PTI supporters had engaged in “incitement, arson, vandalism, and attacks on police” in a tweet.
It further stated that police teams were conducting additional raids to make more arrests and that cameras were being used to identify every suspect.
The police further said, “Other districts are being alerted about the suspects arrested for being involved in violent incidents so that they (suspects) could be handed over to them (those districts).”
