PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai was offloaded from plane at Bacha Khan International Airport, Peshawar on Wednesday.
Yousafzai, who previously served as the Information Minister in both PTI provincial governments, had been in hiding since the riots on May 9 that ensued after the arrest of PTI chairman Imran Khan.
Taking to his verified Facebook account, Shaukat Yousafzai said that he was issued boarding pass but barred from boarding the plane. He was offloaded from Plane after clearing the boarding pass process at Bacha Khan International Airport. He said that he was going to Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.
He expressed his respect for the country’s institutions but noted that his arrest, without any FIR and while not being on the no-fly list, is perplexing.
Earlier on Tuesday, Shangala police have arrested Shaukat Yousafzai’s brother and district President Liaqat Ali Yousafzai along with six others when they were going to attend a party meeting in the hujra of Alpuri tehsil nazim in Shahpur. They were taken into the custody in violation of the Section 144 imposed by the local administration the other day.
