Pakistan
Pakistan: Farmer leader arrested in Lahore
Raiwind police in Lahore have arrested Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) president Chaudhry Anwar from his residence on Monday, media reports said.
The farmers’ leader had led a protest around three months ago (November 2020) in the provincial capital, demanding Rs 2,000 per 40 kg wheat support price and Rs 300 per kg for sugarcane, besides flat power rate of Rs 5 per unit for the farm tubewells, reports Dawn News.
During the ensuing clash with the police a protester, who was identified as Ashfaq Langrial, had died.
Though the PKI gave no official word on the arrest, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz alleges that the police action is aimed at forcing Anwar to withdraw the petition he had filed for registration of a murder case against police over the protester’s death, reports Dawn News.
“The Punjab government had been pressing Chaudhry Anwar to withdraw his application for registration of the murder case. On his persistent refusal, the Raiwind police arrested him from his residence,” Punjab PML-N President Rana Sanaullah Khan was quoted as saying by Dawn News.
Punjab PML-N President Rana Sanaullah has condemned the arrest of the leader.
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