Fawad Chaudhry arrested from his Lahore residence over 'provocative' statement.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) vice president and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry has been arrested by police in the wee hours of Wednesday from Lahore for threatening members of the electoral body.

The PTI leader Farrukh Habib in a statement issued on Twitter said that police had arrested Fawad Chaudhry from his house in Lahore. He said the imported government is in a state of panic as it had started arresting PTI leaders.

The former information minister was arrested after a case was registered by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Umar Hameed at the Kohsar Police Station of the capital city against him. The PTI leader, according to the First Information Report (FIR), has been booked under sections 153A, 506 and 124 A of the Penal Code of Pakistan for allegedly threatening the ECP and its members in a televised interview on Tuesday.

Earlier, thousands of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers gather outside PTI chief Imran Khan residence in Zaman Park, Lahore in the wee hours of Wednesday to protect their leader from possible arrest by the Punjab police

Thousands of PTI workers including women and children and top...