Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Punjab Chief Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday condemned the massive crackdown on its workers and office-bearers and arrest of scores of activists across the Punjab and Sindh.
"The police are blindly raiding the houses of the party workers, breaching their privacy and picking them up indiscriminately. Even the elderly have not been spared and the workers arrested in one district are being taken to jails in other districts," he said.
Talking to newsmen here on Thursday he said the arrest of opposition political activists was a blatant violation of civil and human rights. The seven years of misrule coupled with the ongoing judicial crisis has triggered massive public demands for the removal of the current unconstitutional set-up, he added.