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The PTI alleged that its president in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, MNA Junaid Akbar was “arrested” in Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday while campaigning for upcoming elections and later expelled from there.
Initially the PTI claimed in a post on X that “PTI KP President Junaid Akbar, along with MNAs Saleemur Rehman, Amjab Ali Khan, Syed Mehboob Shah, MPA Naeem and […] Dr Nawaz were arrested by the GB government and administration at a check post when they were returning from the Ghizer district”.
The party further alleged that the party leaders had been “taken to Gilgit”.
The PTI also shared a video the alleged arrest on X, in which Akbar and others were seen sitting inside what appeared to be a van. In the background, a man in a police uniform could also be seen.
