PESHAWAR:
Activists of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Minhajul Quran on Thursday set up a protest camp against the killings of their colleagues by police personnel in Lahore earlier this week.
The camp was arranged at Sher Shah Suri Road, opposite Cantonment Railway Station. Demonstrators carried banners and placards inscribed with different slogans against the Punjab government.
PAT’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter president Khalid Mehmood Durrani, PAT senior vice president Pir Syed Sajjad Shah Badshah, Minhajul Quran district ameer Sahibzada Abdur Rashid and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) K-P president Intekhab Khan Chamkani addressed protesters.
Durrani alleged the incumbent government was not a democratic one and had come into power by rigging, not by public mandate.
Badshah said the protest would continue until the involved persons were not arrested and held the Punjab government responsible for the incident.
Intekhab Chamkani said the Punjab chief minister and all his cabinet members should immediately step down and dismiss and arrest the Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) of Lahore.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2014.
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