Gujranwala central jail refuses to keep PTI workers. The administration of Gujranwala Central Jail on Sunday rejected to keep Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers in the prison, who are surrendering themselves for the Jail Bharo Tehreek.
The jail management in a letter has informed the police and the district administration.
As per the jail officials, Gujranwala Jail previously overcrowded as it is keeping 3,300 prisoners alongside its capacity of 1,500.
The PTI workers arrested in Gujranwala shifted to the other jails of the province, the sources.
Relevant to note that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has kicked off Jail Bharo Tehreek at the directions of party chief Imran Khan from Wednesday.
Previously, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Rawalpindi leaders, who volunteered their arrest under party’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’, shifted to Shahpur jail from Adiala.
Agreeing to sources, PTI senior leaders Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Abbasi, Fayazul Hassan Chohan, Ijaz Khan Jazi, Latafat Abbasi and Chaudhry Sajid shifted to Shahpur jail.
The police also moved 41 PTI activists from Adiala jail to the Hafizabad jail.
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Gujranwala central jail refuses to keep PTI workers. Later Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi, the court arrest drive will reach Multan today where more than 200 PTI activists will voluntarily surrender themselves to police.