Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb on Wednesday denied the engrossment of the government behind the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry.Â
She provided the interpretation by saying, “We have the same power as the PTI held while in power, but we will not use it for politic victimization.”
“Some people are attempting to portray that Fawad Chaudhry’s arrest was politically motivated. But let me take the occasion and clarify: if we wanted to arrest (our political opponents), then the entire top-tier PTI leadership would be behind bars. It is not politically motivated,” the information minister said in a press conference.
Police arrested Fawad from his residence earlier today as he publicly “threatened” the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a press conference outside Imran Khan’s residence in Zaman Park a day earlier.
Speaking to the media at a court in Lahore, where the police presented him for obtaining remand, Fawad said that he is “proud” of the case that has been registered against him.
As PTI workers protested at GT Road in Jhelum, the police also rounded up Fawad’s brother Faraz Chaudhry. However, a local magistrate released him on bail after a brief detention.