Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan Tehree-k-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Fawad Chaudhry was arrested from outside the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday night.
The PTI leader had been inside the SC since 11am in a bid to evade arrest.
Fawad was taken into custody after he came out of the premises of the top court.
Chaudhry was arrested under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Ordinance (MPO) and was shifted to the Secretariat Police Station.
Speaking to the media just before his arrest, Fawad Chaudhry said that never has a petitioner been arrested in such a manner.
The PTI leader said that the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had already approve his pre-arrest bail which he had shown to the capital cops earlier in the day.
He claimed that a deliberate effort had been undertaken to create division between the army and the PTI.
Fawad Chaudhry also called for giving space to political opponents to pave the way for dialogue.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar has been arrested from the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) premises.
As per the details, the PTI leader has been arrested by the anti-terrorist squad.
The law enforcers picked up the former federal minister from outside the IHC Bar Room where he and other PTI leaders were preparing a plea to be filed file in the IHC seeking a meeting with party chief Imran Khan.
Asad Umar was booked in two cases registered against him and other PTI leaders following the protests that ensued after Imran Khan's arrest. The cases were registered in Islamabad's Tarnol and Aabpara police stations.
On Tuesday, PTI chairman and former premier Imran Khan was arrested in the Al-Qadir Trust case from the premises of the IHC, where he was present for two hearings.
Following Khans' arrest, PTI workers staged violent protests in several cities. Police arrested hundreds of party workers and several leaders, including PTI Sindh leader Ali Zaidi, Asad Umar former Punjab governor Omar Sarfaraz Cheema.
