SwatPolice arrested about 140 opposition workers in Swabi on Monday.
The arrests follow the emergency and governor’s rule imposed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A Swat police complaint names 2 opposition National Assembly members and 4 provincial legislators over a 28 September rally.
The complaint accuses them of threatening speeches against the federal government and blocking Mingora-Murghazar Road.
Police raided opposition lawmakers’ homes in Battagram, Mohmand and Charsadda, and found none of them.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn leans critical
- details the FIR naming two MNAs and four MPAs, and the Swabi mass arrests of about 140 with district-wide internet cut
Sources: Dawn