Dr Yasmin Rashid arrested again, after LHC ordered her release.

LAHORE -- PTI's PunAjab chapter president Dr Yasmin Rashid was arrested again, just hours after the Lahore High Court had ordered her release along with 17 other women workers of the party detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).

In a midnight development, Dr Yasmin was 'arrested' again, this time in cases registered at three different police stations of Lahore. However, due to her medical condition, the police decided to keep her at Services Hospital, where she had been taken from Kot Lakhpat jail after the court ordered her release.

On petitions challenging the detention of the PTI leaders and workers, Justice Safdar Saleem Shahid of the LHC had ordered release of the 18 women detained under the MPO, if not required in any criminal case.

Earlier, Advocate SikaAndar Zulqarnain argued on behalf of the petitioners that the detained persons included responsible members of the bar and household women. He said they were neither active members of any political party nor involAved in any anti-state activities.

Additional Advocate General Ghulam Sarwar Nehang opposed the petitions and stated that the district government lawfully issued the detention orders of the persons involved in violent protests against the state.

He said the petitioners had not availed the first remedy in the law and directly moved the...