As the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf prepares for a rally in Lahore led by Chairman Imran Khan, Sindh provincial lawmaker Arsalan Taj Hussain was arrested from his Karachi residence on Sunday, according to the party's provincial spokesperson.
Hussain is the PTI's provincial lawmaker from PS-102 Karachi East 4 and the city's secretary general. A day earlier, the MPA had censured Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari and Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon, and also claimed that the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) was, in fact, the "PPP's B team".
According to the party, Hussain was apprehended from his home in Gulshan-e-Iqbal by plainclothes men.
The MPA's house was also raided and ransacked, according to the spokesperson. The arrest of a PTI member has been condemned.
Meanwhile, the residences of PTI lawmakers Khurram Sherzaman and Raja Azhar were raided, according to the party's spokesperson. The two MPAs were not apprehended because they were not at home; however, Azhar's family was harassed while he was not at home, according to the party.
In response to the raids on the homes of PTI lawmakers, PTI leader Shehzad Qureshi condemned the illegal action carried out by police at night.
"Arsalan Taj has been kept somewhere unknown. "Police are threatening leaders' families," he claimed while questioning