ATTOCK, April 26: Two People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) leaders detained a month ago were released Wednesday evening from the District Jail Attock.

The PPP leaders — Qazi Sultan Mehmood and Iqbal Razzak Butt — were arrested by the police in Rawalpindi on March 25 to prevent them from rallying against the “suspension” of Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Besides a large number of party activists and lawyers, PPP leaders Malik Hakmeen Khan, Sheikh Ehsan, Syed Azmat Bukhari and Attock District Bar Association President Rana Afsar Ali Khan received their associates at the gates of the prison.

Upon their release, both leaders said that arrests and detentions could not keep the party’s leadership away from the ongoing struggle for the restoration of real democracy and supremacy of the judiciary.

PEMRA NOTICE: The journalists’ community in Attock condemned in strongest terms the issuance of a notice to the private Aaj television channel over the coverage of the judicial crisis.

In a joint meeting of the Attock Press Club and the Central Union of Journalists, media persons said the attack on Geo television station in Islamabad and the notice served on Aaj TV were attempts to gag the press.