Ex: Sindh Governor Imran Ismail arrested.

KARACHI -- Pakistan Tehreek: e: Insaf (PTI) leader and former Governor Sindh Imran Ismail was arrested on Friday, reported his colleagues. Imran Ismail's brother Adnan Ismail told that police officials along with personnel of Law Enforcement Agencies raided the PTI leader's residence located in DHA phase 8 and arrested him. 'SSP Keamari and some officials in plain clothes who happened to be Law Enforcement Agencies personnel have shifted him to an undisclosed location,' he alleged. According to PTI leaders, police have shifted him to the Darakhshan Police Station in connection with an ongoing crackdown against the party leadership in the aftermath of the violent protests that erupted after PTI chief Imran Khan's arrest. The PTI has called for its leadership and thousands of party workers and supporters to be released. On the other hand, the PTI has filed a petition in sessions court Jacoababd against the torture of another PTI leader Ali Zaidi, former federal minister, who was shifted to a district jail yesterday. Subsequently, the court issued notices to jail district authorities and has summoned them.

Notably, the Sindh government had previously issued an order to detain him for one month...

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