Islamabad
Ahead of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s long march to Islamabad today, Pakistan Muslim League’s (Nawaz) leader Maryam Nawaz Sharif claimed that the Punjab Police has recovered a large number of weapons from the PTI leaders.
Weapons recovered by Punjab Lahore police from vehicles of PTI Lahore office bearers Zubair Niazi and Bajash Niazi. Case registered. This is the ugly face of the so-called Long March. These are the intentions, tweeted the PML-N leader.
Further, Nawaz provided details of the weapons recovered which comprise six 223 bore guns, three pistols, 10 Kopay, 13 sub-machine guns (SMG), 96 magazines of SMG rifles, 50 boxes of bullets, and another bigger packet of bullets.
The Punjab government said that the weapons were recovered from the vehicles of the office bearers of the PTI, reported Dawn newspaper. The weapons were retrieved the day when the Imran Khan-led PTI launched its march. More senior leaders of the PTI were also rounded up.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had earlier announced that his party’s long protest march to Islamabad will begin on May 25 demanding the dissolution of the National Assembly and a date for the next general election and invited people to join in large numbers.
Lahore DIG Operations Sohail Chaudhry said that a few days ago, the police had received information about illegal weapons to be brought into the city.
