{"id":34285,"date":"2024-09-11T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=34285"},"modified":"2024-09-11T10:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T10:11:19","slug":"nine-eleven-of-democracy-in-pakistan-pti-legislators-arrested-from-the-premises-of-the-parliament-house-speaker-suspends-4-security-officers-orders-immediate-release-of-mnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/nine-eleven-of-democracy-in-pakistan-pti-legislators-arrested-from-the-premises-of-the-parliament-house-speaker-suspends-4-security-officers-orders-immediate-release-of-mnas\/","title":{"rendered":"NINE ELEVEN of DEMOCRACY in Pakistan – PTI Legislators Arrested from the Premises of the Parliament House – Speaker Suspends 4 Security Officers – Orders Immediate Release of MNAs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Tuesday suspended five security officials for four months, days after PTI lawmakers were arrested from inside the Parliament House for clashing with police, inciting violence, and breaking law during Sunday rally.<\/h5>\n
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Just after 3am on Tuesday, plainclothesmen had stormed the Parliament House \u2014 disconne\u00adc\u00adting the power supply and barging into the building\u2019s Ser\u00advices Branch to whisk away at least 11 PTI legislators. Speaker has ordered immediate release of the MNAs that could not be seen untill late on Wednesday 11 Sep 2024.<\/h5>\n
Political analyst , Mr. Tazeen Akhtar has termed the arrests from the democratic symbol as the Nine Eleven of the Democracy in Pakistan. He said that more such extreme activities can be observed in the coming days that will decide the future of democracy, tolerance and independent politics in Pakistan where non political forces have encroached too much into politics.
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The arrests of opposition lawmakers came a day after the PTI held a massive public rally in Islamabad’s outskirts to demand Khan’s release and the “return of seats won” by the party in the Feb. 8 general elections, which it claimed were rigged, accusing the country’s electoral authority of manipulating results.<\/h5>\n
On Monday evening, Islamabad police spokesman Jawad Taqi told reporters that Barrister Gohar Khan, the PTI’s current chairman since Khan is in jail, and several other lawmakers were arrested near the parliament’s main entrance.<\/h5>\n
The PTI later issued a statement saying some of its lawmakers, including Zain Qureshi, and Sheikh Waqas Akram, were arrested on the parliament premises.<\/h5>\n
Local broadcasters aired footage showing policemen pushing Sher Afzal Marwat, a flamboyant PTI lawmaker, toward a security vehicle as soon as he exited parliament.<\/h5>\n
Opposition leader in the National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan in a separate statement claimed that some masked men entered the parliament building to arrest lawmakers of his party.<\/h5>\n

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