RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday said that he would stay with the party no matter what comes, as he was rearrested outside Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, immediately after his release.
Speaking outside the prison before his rearrest, Qureshi emphasized that he was still a part of the party and would remain so.
Expressing his dismay over Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s rearrest, PTI Chairman Imran Khan tweeted, “The law of the jungle is now governing us, might is right, and the only thing standing in its way is our judiciary.”
Imran Khan said that the country’s constitution is being brazenly violated along with Supreme Court rulings. He said that the Police were being used to crush PTI, and the PTI leaders are forced to quit the party.
Vice Chairman PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi rearrested after getting bail just like PTI workers and supporters.
We are now being governed by law of the jungle, might is right and the only thing standing in its way is our judiciary.
The constitution is being brazenly violated along…
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) May 23, 2023
Earlier today, the Islamabad High Court ordered Mehmood Qureshi’s release after he submitted an undertaking affirming that he would abstain from inciting workers and creating agitation.
Qureshi was among the top PTI leaders apprehended from Islamabad within twenty-four hours of the outbreak of the party workers’ violent protests following PTI chief and former prime minister Imran Khan’s arrest on 9 May in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
پارٹی چھوڑ نہیں رہا پارٹی کے ساتھ ہوں پارٹی کیساتھ ہی رہوں گا ۔ شاہ محمود قریشی#IamWithKhan pic.twitter.com/sHM0BZEHeg
— PTI (@PTIofficial) May 23, 2023
Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s arrest
Qureshi was arrested in cases of riots and arsons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, police said back then. On 18 May, the IHC quashed orders for the former foreign minister’s arrest and ordered his release.
However, the court had said that Qureshi’s release would be contingent on his submission of a written undertaking that he would abstain from violent protests and refrain from inciting violence in the future.
Many PTI leaders were arrested after the days-long violent protests under the Maintenance of Public Order. During the protests, angry PTI workers attacked public and private property in different cities. They also attacked army installations, including the General Headquarters (GHQ) entrance and the Lahore Corps Commanders House.
