Police arrested three men earlier yesterday for kidnapping rather catnapping a cat belonging to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activist Imtiaz Asif.
Asif lodged an First Information Report against three men who had been pressurising her to join the PML-N. She believes the men kidnapped her cat in an act of retaliation upon her refusal to join their party.
Asif claims that her cat — allegedly worth Rs0.2 million — had briefly shot to fame when she took it along with her to PTI’s 126-day sit-in at Islamabad’s D-Chowk in 2014.
She had been pressurised by several men in her neighbourhood to switch parties and join the PML-N. She says the men lived in her neighbourhood and had seen her cat roaming freely on the streets.
The three men have been arrested by the police and an investigation has been launched into the cat theft.
Police on Monday had recovered a cat and presented it to Asif for identification, but she says it was it was not her cat.
She has received calls from several unidentified men who are pressurising her to join PML-N, and have offered to return her cat in exchange.
“The cat is very dear to me,” says Imtiaz. However, if it is dear enough for Ms. Imtiaz to join the PML N is a question that is, as yet unanswered.
