PTI Sindh legislator picked up in DC office attack case.

KARACHI -- A provincial lawmaker and Karachi chapter's secretary general of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Arsalan Taj Ghumman, was whisked away reportedly by policemen who alongside 'men dressed in plainclothes broke into his house' in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in the early hours of Sunday.

In the late evening, it emerged that the lawmaker had been taken into custody by the police in a case pertaining to an attack on the Keamari deputy commissioner's office.

After hours-long silence, the police admitted that they had arrested the PTI leader in a case pertaining to an attack on the deputy commissioner's office in Keamari some two months ago.

A police officer, who wished not to be named, said that the PTI MPA was arrested by the Site-A police over the attack on the Keamari office on January 18. The police had booked several PTI leaders, including former federal minister Ali Zaidi, in the case.

Meanwhile, the PTI spokesperson stated MPA Ghumman was arrested in the case registered under the anti-terrorism act.

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Earlier in the day, MPA Jamal Siddiqi, who is PTI's central deputy secretary of information, told Dawn that some 'plainclothes men and policemen forced their way into the house' of the legislator near Disco Bakery.

Quoting the family, Mr Siddiqi said that the 'intruders' misbehaved with MPA Ghumman's mother and wife and took him away. The police reportedly entered the house without search warrants and women officers.

Mr Siddiqi said the CCTV footage obtained from the area 'clearly showed the policemen taking the MPA away but the police were still denying it'.

There was no official confirmation from the police about the incident during the day. When contacted...