Peshawar: Ali Muhammad Khan, a leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, said that former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif “shouldn’t have handcuffed” when arrested.
“Today I’m in chains. I spoke out against putting handcuffs on Nawaz Sharif and was against it. “Even though we had different political views, he was a former prime minister and shouldn’t have been handcuffed,” the leader of the PTI told reporters on Saturday at a local court in Mardan.
“[…] because it’s not just the prime minister who’s handcuffed, but 220 million people in the country,” he said.
He talking about the arrest of former Prime Minister Nawaz and his daughter Maryam Nawaz when they arrived in Lahore in 2018 after found guilty of corruption in their absence.
Ali Muhammad Khan caught for the fifth time the day before.
The court told the police to let him go if his arrest not needed for anything else.
Soon after freed, taken into custody by the anti-corruption establishment (ACE) outside the ATC for another case.
