HKM worker set free.

LAHORE -- A worker of the Haqooq-i-Khalq Movement (HKM), Ahsan Bhatti, who was arrested by police three days back, has been released.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Saturday condemned the arrest and demanded his release, saying the police had picked up Bhatti but did not register a case.

'The HRCP condemns the arbitrary arrest of Haqooq-e-Khalq worker Ahsan Bhatti who was exercising his constitutional right to protest against spiraling inflation,' it said and demanded the Punjab government immediately cease its repressive tactics against all political workers.

The sources said police had arrested Bhatti as a PTI worker, saying he used to...