Minutes after release, Qureshi arrested again.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was rearrested Tuesday, minutes after being released from Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail, a private TV channel reported.

Party leader Musarrat Jamshed Cheema was also rearrested immediately after her release.

Speaking outside the jail before his rearrest, Qureshi emphasised that he was still a part of the PTI and would remain so. The former minister was then taken away by police to an unknown location.

His statement about remaining in the party came hours after the party's senior vice president Shireen Mazari announced that she was quitting the PTI and leaving politics.

Earlier, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) ordered Qureshi's release after he submitted an undertaking affirming that he would abstain from creating agitation and inciting workers.

Qureshi was among the top PTI leaders arrested from Islamabad within 24 hours of the outbreak of violent protests by PTI workers following former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest on May 9 in the Al-Qadir Trust case.

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