ISLAMABAD – Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Gulalai Ismail has beenreleased from the Police custody.
She was released upon Prime Minister Imran Khan’s intervention on Thursdayafter undergoing a 30 hours detention following a protest that took placeoutside Islamabad Press Club.
On Tuesday, police had detained scores of protesters, including PTM leadersAbdullah Nangyal, and Pashteen Idrees, over their participation in aprotest against the “extrajudicial killing” of Professor Arman Loni. ThoughGulalai has been released, 17 of them are still in Adiala jail.
It may be noted that the PTM had issued a countrywide call for protestsafter one of its members, Arman Loni, was reportedly killed by police in acrackdown on a sit-in in Loralai.
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Talking to a private media outletlink,she said that she was first detained in a women’s police station inIslamabad. The next morning, she was shifted to a women’s hostel and thentaken to the Aabpara police station, from where the arrested were taken toAdiala after a five-hour wait.
She tweeted: “Thank you PM Imran for ensuring my release. These weretedious 30 hours for my family. Please help to bring out our other 17friends.”
