11 including 04 PTI men arrested: DC Yasir Riaz Ch.
Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK): Nov. 17 : City police here on Sunday rounded up atleast 11 persons including 04 activists of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf, AJK Chapter, and 07 local tents and sound system providers, on the charges of violating the AJK Presidential Ordinance -2024, authorities said
District Magistrate / DC Mirpur AJK Yasir Riaz Chaudhry, when contacted, told our Special Jammu Kashmir state Correspondent Altaf Hamid Rao Sunday evening that those booked under the relevant law included PTI AJK President and former Prime Minister of the State Sardar Qayyum Khan Niazi, central Deputy Secretary General Sardar Jamil Sadiq Advocate, Central Deputy Info Secy, Ch. Arif, Jabaar Minhas Advocate, City Unit President Mirza Iftikhar Qayyum, Qazi Arshad, District Chief Organiser Hameef Poth. District President Saien Zulfiqar and scores of others.
Four of those PTI leaders rounded up by the city police by Sunday evening included City Unit President Mirza Iftikhar Qayyum, Qazi Arshad, AJK PTI Chief Organiser Hameef Poth. District President Saien Zulfiqar, the city Dutyv police officer ASI Munawar Ahmed told this Correspondent over telephone Sunday night when contacted.
Elaborating, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Riaz Chaudhry said while responding to a question that these persons were booked for violating the AJK Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Presidential Ordinance- 2024 besides defying Ordinance of Sound System by holding an unlawful gathering at PWD State Guest House in Mirpur AJK on Saturday, inspite of the warning by the duty Magistrate and the police prior to the unlawful gathering besides indulging in hooliganism on the part of the local PTI host leaders, workers and other unidentified persons, he underlined.
FIR has been registered against the violators of the prohibitory orders, the DC said adding further legal proceedings against the violators, are in progress
