Lahore, July 13 (TNS): As police conducted crackdown against PML-N workers in Lahore, other cities of Punjab also witnessed unrest.
Police have arrested former MPA Jaffer Ali and NA-103 candidate Ali Gohar and nearly 50 other PML-N workers from Faisalabad.
Faisalabad’s Kamalpur Interchange, Sargodha Road, Deputy Wala interchange, Sahianwala Interchange, Aminpur Interchange and the Canal Road Expressway have all been blocked and there is no way for commuters to move in and out of the city.
Containers are blocking off roads and police have been deployed at all exits from the city.
Separately, law enforcement personnel have dispersed a PML-N protest demonstration and arrested around 35 PML-N workers in Sahiwal.
District president PML-N Malik Nadeem Kamran and various local party leaders were baton-charged by the police at Supreme House near the Lahore-Sahiwal motorway. Former MPA Muhammad Tufail Jutt was also beaten up by the police.
Sahiwal’s PML-N leadership and election candidates have reached Lahore after they managed to dodge the police, who have blocked roads surrounding the Sahiwal by-pass. The candidates that have reached Lahore include Malik Nadeem Kamran, Pir Imran Shah Wali, Malik Arshad and Shah Muneer Azhar.
All roads leading in and out of Sialkot have been blocked. Police and Rangers diverted Khawaja Asif’s convoy out of Sialkot. On-ground reports suggest that the PML-N leader then took a route through rural areas to reach Lahore for the planned rally.
