Daily Times

Nawaz-sharifPakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), on Saturday, strongly protested over the FIR launched against hundreds of PML-N workers for participating in the rally of party’s supreme leader Nawaz Sharif. They were accompanying him to Kot Lakhpat Jail over the expiry of his bail on Tuesday.

As per details, the Kot Lakhpat police station registered an FIR against 1500 workers of PML-N for staging a rally sans permission from the administration. They were also accused of hampering the flow of traffic for the public.

The FIR alleged, “Around 1400 to 1500 workers of PML-N carrying the party flags came from the Ring Road and they parked their vehicles near the Shangai bridge at Ferozepur road while hampering the flow of traffic.”It further added the vehicles of workers also had speakers who were chanting slogans against the government while disrupting the traffic near Shanghai Bridge-the main reception point for Sharif.

The PML-N workers had also been accused in the FIR for stopping a train near the Kot Lakhpat Jail. Therefore, they have also been booked under the Railways Act of 1890. Commenting on the situation, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz who was also accompanying her father in the rally, noted, “Look how terrified they are of PML-N.”

She tweeted that she had asked the Lahore chapter of PML-N to assist the workers and offer all help.

She also asked the workers to contact her if they needed any help in this regard. The lawyers’ wing of PML-N Lahore has also been activated to assist the workers in any legal help to deal with the situation.

PML-N’s Lahore General Secretary and MPA Khawaja Imran Nazir said he had formed legal teams on the directives of Maryam Nawaz to help the workers without any cost.

Commenting on the situation, he added not a single plant was damaged in the rally as all PML-N workers were peaceful yet the dictatorial mindset of the government was fully exposed after the FIR that had been registered on the behest of the PTI’s government.

“Imran Khan used to offer us his own container to launch the protest but look how terrified he is now just after the one rally that we staged to show solidarity with our leader,” Nazir added.