Zain Qureshi files petition his father had been illegally detained
Amraiz Khan Lahore
Several pleas were filed Thursday in the Lahore High Court for release of the detained Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders who were put behind bars as they voluntarily surrendered themselves to police a day earlier in line with their Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement).
The PTI members, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Azam Swati, and other senior leaders, were taken into police custody onWednesday evening near Lahore’s Mall Road, on the day the court arrest movement began.
In the petition, Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s son Zain Qureshi main tained that his father had been illegally detained and his whereabouts are not known. He pleaded with the court to order the recovery of his father.
In his petition, Zain Qureshi appealed to the LHC to order authorities to produce his father who is being kept in wrongful detention. “Shah Mahmood was taken into custody yesterday and I am not being informed about his whereabouts.”
According to another report, Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been shifted to Attock Jail.
A similar petition was also moved by PTI senior leader Aijaz Chaudhry seeking recovery of PTI leadership. The petition has sought the LHC’s intervention in the release of the PTI leader.
Justice Shahram Sarwar Chaudhry will hear the petitions on Friday. Around 81 PTI leaders and workers including Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Umar Cheema, Azam Swati, and others surrendered in Lahore on day 1 of ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’.
