Police arrest PTI leader Mahmood Jan in K-P.

PESHAWAR -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former deputy speaker of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Mahmood Jan, and two others, were arrested by police in an alleged murder case.

According to the police, a murder and an attempted murder case was registered against Jan after a property dispute with locals, wherein three people were killed on both sides and more than eight were injured.

The police later produced the arrested PTI leader in a judicial magistrate's court, where the court handed over the accused to the police on a one-day physical remand.

Earlier, the police informed the court that Jan was arrested on charges of shooting at the procession of the Isakhel tribe within the limits of the Regi police station.

The accused were arrested after being granted interim bail by a local court in Dera Ismail Khan. Further investigation is underway.

Meanwhile, in Gujranwala, PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi's spokesperson Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal was arrested by police from within court premises.

Iqbal was arrested before the appearance of the former Punjab chief and was taken to an unknown location by the police.

Reacting to the arrest, Iqbal's son, Ali Iqbal Chaudhry, said that there was no case against his father and...

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