Arif Alvi grabs Darakhshan SHO 'by the neck'

PTI leader got into a scuffle with police officials deployed outside the CBC office

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Dr Arif Alvi on Friday got into a scuffle with police officials deployed outside the Cantonment Board Clifton office in Karachi.

A video, which has gone viral, showed the PTI MNA grabbing Darakhshan SHO Ahsan Zulfiqar by the neck. Alvi was leading a protest demonstration outside the CBC office against the prevailing water crisis in the locality.

According to residents, they pay water tax but are not being supplied water, and are now being further burdened with an extra tax for water supply.

Alvi said he wasn't allowed to enter the premises.





A similar protest was organised on Thursday. ‘Pani do, hamain pani do, CBC tum doob jao! [Give us water, give us water, CBC you should drown]’ was one of the slogans being shouted by irate DHA residents.

“There are choked lines and no water comes to our houses. We pay for the tankers but now they have asked us to pay another tax of Rs500. We will not have this,” declared Mona Noor, who has been living in the locality for the past 20 years. The residents say they pay water tax but are not being supplied water and are now being further burdened with an extra tax for water supply.

Dr @ArifAlvi talking to the residents outside CBC while he & the MO's were being prevented from entering the CBC premises #KarachiKoPaniDo pic.twitter.com/RlD5yr2vNd

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