PML-N’s acting chief arrested

Javed Hashmi, acting chief of exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif's PML-N, was arrested along with 10 party activists as part of Pakistan government's crackdown on opposition leaders after imposition of emergency.

Javed Hashmi, acting chief of exiled former Premier Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N, was arrested along with 10 party activists as part of Pakistan government’s crackdown on opposition leaders after imposition of emergency.

Hashmi, who has been heading the PML-N in the absence of exiled Sharif and his brother Shahbaz, was arrested in Multan, Geo TV reported on its website.

Ten PML-N activists were also arrested along with Hashmi, it said.

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Police were continuing raids on leaders of various political parties in many parts of the country, including Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Quetta and Hyderabad.

Earlier, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, several opposition leaders and senior lawyers were among those who were either detained or placed under house arrest as the government launched a crackdown against persons who could oppose imposition of emergency by President Pervez Musharraf.

Khan, the leader of the Tehreek-e-Insaf and an outspoken critic of Musharraf, was placed under house arrest at Banigala, near the national capital, by some 30 plain-clothe policemen who surrounded his house.

Aitzaz Ahsan, the Supreme Court Bar Association President, was arrested from his house in Islamabad late last night and taken to Adiala Jail in Punjab province, reports said.

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Ahsan had represented ousted Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry when Musharraf first tried to dismiss him in March.

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