Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Punjab President Mian Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo has rejected the new wave of large-scale arrests of PTI and PAT workers in a bid to prevent the largest participation in Islamabad sit-ins on Saturday evening.
Talking to a party delegation on Saturday, Wattoo maintained that this “senseless” move was not only repugnant to the fundamental right of peaceful procession of citizens but was also at variance with the Supreme Court instructions to the effect that peaceful procession was a fundamental right of political parties. Wattoo pointed out that both of the protesting parties have been holding their processions in a peaceful manner within the ambit of the constitution and that arrests of their workers would tantamount to preventing them from exercising their fundamental right guaranteed also by the Supreme Court.
Wattoo called upon the government to desist from indulging in illegal and unconstitutional arrests because misuse of power had already led to the deleterious consequences as was evident in the Model Town incident of June 17.
It can be ironically said that the rulers had learned no lesson from their repeatedmistakes and that they were still following the beaten tracks, he added.
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