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No PTI worker was arrested in PTI's Jail Bharo Tehreek in KP


The PTI’s Jail Bharo Tehreek on Thursday appeared to be losing its steam as not a single leader or activist in Peshawar, the provincial capital of the party’s power hub Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, was rounded up in the city.

PTI activists, led by their leaders, reached Central Prison Peshawar and stayed there till the evening but no one was arrested. 

Around 11 am, PTI activists in Peshawar started reaching Gulbahar and gathered on GT Road. 

PTI Provincial President Pervez Khattak, former governor Shah Farman, Taimur Jhagra, Kamran Bangash, Asad Qaisar and other leaders also joined them. 

The crowd then marched towards the Central Prison Peshawar and tried to enter the building but were stopped by police. 

The police had parked a van outside the prison where the party activists and others gathered but they soon left the vehicle. Khattak and other leaders talked to the police officials and presented themselves for arrest. 

However, the police refused to arrest anyone. 

In the evening amid the slogans of the PTI supporters, the sit-in staged by the party activists came to an end as the leaders announced that the police were reluctant to arrest them.

They announced that PTI chairman Imran Khan had ordered them to end the protest and sit-in. 

They added that it had been decided that all PTI leaders and activists in K-P would go to Rawalpindi for the campaign on Friday (today).

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