multan ahead of the pakistan democratic movements pdm rally in multan the police have launched a crackdown against opposition political workersaccording to a report by ary news police arrested local leaders of pakistani muslim league nawaz pmln chaudhry shahbaz jutt sohail butt jamiat ulemae islams f jui qari khalilur rehman and maulana muneer ahmed abbasi from tiranda mohammad panah in the vicinity of liaquatpurthe police have also conducted raids at the residences of political workers in liaquatpur and arrested pdm local leaders jam javed laar allahwasaya khan usman chandia imran ashfaq bagga and ali mansoor besides former pmln chairman municipal committee hafiz jameel ahmed from layyahmeanwhile juif local leader mian ajmal abbas and two pmln workers were arrested from khanewal another local party leader ghulam shabbir saqi from mohsinwal and 10 pmln workersary news reported that 23 political workers including three leaders of peoples party have been detained in multanmeanwhile the express tribune has reported that the khyberpakhtunkhwa kp government asked the police to register a case against the local leadership of the pdm for holding the november 22 rally despite the peshawar administrations refusal to grant them permission for it due to an exponential rise in coronavirus casesearlier today pakistan peoples party ppp leader ali qasim gilani along with 30 opposition members were arrestedaccording to a report by geo news police in multan filed a case against ppp workers after they broke through security barriers and stormed into multans qila qasim bagh on saturday ahead of the pdm rally scheduled to take place there on mondaytheir workers have taken control of the administration of the stadium and have also set up a welcoming camp outside the party media cell said pakistan muslim leaguenawaz workers led a rally in multan and also entered the stadium after it was broken into the media outlet reportedthe rally will be held in qila qasim bagh at every cost today all the barriers of the police and administration have been broken down after storming the gates we have taken control of the stadium ppp leader musa gilani saidgeo news further reported that the police have registered a case against 70 named and more than 300 unnamed party workers for breaking off locks and forcing their way into the stadium at the multans lohari gate police stationthe police also filed a case against caterers who had agreed to provide services to the organisers of the november 30 rally