PTI's Asad Umar arrested from IHC premises.

ISLAMABAD -- Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Wednesday arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar from the premises of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) - the same court from where PTI chief Imran Khan was taken into custody.

The Islamabad police's ATS officials picked up Umar from outside the IHC Bar Room where he and other PTI leaders were preparing a plea to be filed file in the IHC seeking a meeting with Khan.

According to eyewitnesses, the PTI lawyers fought with the police to prevent Umar's arrest, but the law enforcers overpowered them and took the PTI leader away.

The former finance minister was booked in two cases registered against him and other PTI leaders following the protests that ensued after Khan's arrest.

The cases were registered in Islamabad's Tarnol and Aabpara police stations.

Qureshi, Senator Saifullah Sarwar Khan Nyazee, and Ghulam Sarwar Khan were also with Umar when the CTD men swooped on him.

All three leaders returned to the IHC's Bar Room after Umar was taken by the police.

The police also tried arresting Qureshi, however, the lawyers and other...