Jail Bharo Tehreek: Fayaz Chohan, Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Abbasi volunteer their arrest

• PTI workers have brought frying pans to press their clothes
• Police brought the three prison vans to arrest them.
• Fayaz ul Hasan Chohan said he was volunteering first arrest from Rawalpindi.

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leaders Fayaz ul Hasan Chohan, Zulfi Bukhari, Sadaqat Ali Abbasi and Ejaz Khan on Friday volunteered their arrest as part of the Jail Bharo Tehreek (fill the prison drive), along with more than 80 PTI workers.

The police sources said the three prison vans had the capacity of more than 90 persons. After boarding the van, Fayaz ul Hasan Chohan said he was volunteering the first arrest from Rawalpindi. His family members would not seek his bail, he said.

Mocking Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz, PTI workers have brought frying pans to press their clothes in the jail.

The Punjab police are arresting only the party officials, while a large number of PTI workers is present at the Committee Chowk, Bol News reported.

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The workers brought Sadaqat Abbasi towards the prison van on their shoulders.

There are 38 jails in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and all of them are filled beyond their capacities, Bol News had reported on February 23 as the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) begans its ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (fill the jails) in KP.

The jail authorities had said that the number of prisoners in different jails at the moment was more than 13,500. In all the 38 prisons, the number of inmates was 13,106.

The Central Jail Peshawar had the capacity of 3,000 prisoners, but there were 3,501 inmates. The jail authorities had said prisoners in Mardan, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Karak were also beyond the capacity.

On February 22, PTI kicked of the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” to fill up prisons as part of protest drive against the government.