Pakistan KARACHI Following the imposition of Section 144 several leading opposition figures have been placed under arrest as part of a government crackdown in the Punjab province, private TV channels reported Wednesday morning. PML-N leader Raja Zafarul Haq has been placed under house arrest and four lawyers who went to meet Iftikhar Chaudhry were detained by police. Police have been ordered to place under house arrest the Sharif brothers, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Imran Khan but they are all said to have evaded arrest thus far. Police dressed in civilian clothes attempted to arrest lawyers’ movement leader Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan from his residence early Wednesday morning but he was not present at the time, his family told TV channels. Many PML-N, Jamat-i-Islami and lawyers’ movement activists were also detained in Lahore during raids on their homes. Punjab MPA Iftikahr Baloch's house was raided and eight people were arrested from there. Women Action Forum's Tahira Abdullah was detained for three hours. She has now been released. The PML-N reported that 25 of its members were arrested from Lahore and Raiwind. Twelve activists of the Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) party have also been arrested, according to PTI sources.
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