One injured as PTI workers clash

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Najeeb Haroon's coordinator, Azam Khan, was severely injured during a violent clash between two factions of the party at the Sharae Noor Jahan police station in the wee hours of Wednesday.

According to the police, PTI MPA Abbas Jafri had lodged a complaint against a party worker Umar Daraz, who had been detained for questioning. This riled up several party workers, who gathered outside the police station. Soon after, two opposing groups began attacking each other, police related. As a result, Khan was injured, while plant pots and the station reporting room's window were broken, they added.

The police said that after the clash started, Jafri arrived too, trying to defuse the situation in vain.

Eventually, additional force had to be summoned from the Central district, with the larger police contingent managing to oust the PTI workers from the police station. Later, senior party members spoke to them, after which they dispersed, the police said.

The police maintained that they had to pursue legal action against anyone against whom a complaint is filed.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 1^st, 2020.