'Check post' search: PAT workers seize pistol from policeman

PAT supporters return weapon after negotiations facilitated by PAT general secretary


Web Desk October 15, 2014

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) protesters have returned a pistol that they seized from a policeman while searching him at a 'check post' set up by them in Islamabad this morning, Express News reported on Wednesday.

PAT supporters had reportedly taken the pistol from Inspector Asghar from the Kahuta police station but returned it soon after negotiations facilitated by PAT General Secretary Khurram Nawaz Gandapur.

Tahirul Qadri's supporters have set up various 'check posts' on their own in the federal capital where they stop every vehicle as well as pedestrians and frisk everyone, including policemen and media personnel.

One of the protesters told Express News that the pistol was taken from the policeman but was given back after negotiations.

He claimed that the policeman wanted to go to the Supreme Court but they did not allow him to proceed with the pistol.

"We told him to give us the pistol and then go, and take it back on his way back," he added.

COMMENTS (3)

doldrum | 9 years ago | Reply

when the state resorts to hooliganism/barbarism like what happened in June in Lahore. Wrong precedence is definitely set when the state resorts to victimization rather then resorting to justice and impartiality. I am not saying this is correct. Two wrongs certainly dont make it right but a system which doesn't dispenses true justice eventually vigilantism is bound to happen like for few instances it happened on streets of Karachi when few dacoits were lynched by commoners of Karachi.

Saleem | 9 years ago | Reply

What is this non sense; a state within a state? Where is writ of the government?

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