KP CM Gandapur booked for tried homicide, violence

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur addresses an event. — Facebook/Ali Amin Khan Gandapur/File
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur addresses an occasion. — Fb/Ali Amin Khan Gandapur/File

LAHORE: The Lahore police filed a recent case in opposition to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa firebrand Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur below 13 provisions, together with the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), for resorting to violence close to Sialkot Interchange whereas en path to the provincial capital to attend the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Sept 21 energy present.

The PTI held a rally in Lahore, which all of the sudden got here to an finish after the police raided the stage and turned off the microphone and lights which compelled the PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and different get together leaders to depart the location.

The police and district administration took motion after the PTI rally ignored the 6pm deadline specified within the no-objection certificates (NOC) and continued their present.

CM Gandapur, who was main a convoy from KP, didn’t arrive on the venue by the point of the deadline’s expiry. Nevertheless, he managed to succeed in the venue and briefly deal with the get together staff and supporters.

His convoy reportedly contains rescue 1122 ambulances and heavy equipment to take away any hurdles on their manner.

Later, movies emerged on social media exhibiting the KP chief minister breaking the window of a truck together with his rifle.

Subsequently, a primary info report (FIR) was registered at Manawa Police Station with Gandapur being charged below 13 provisions, together with tried homicide.

The FIR acknowledged that the chief government was main an armed mob at Sialkot Interchange, claiming that the mob tried to set the automobiles on fireplace, parked on the toll plaza, on orders of the politician.

In response to the FIR, an armed mob resisted police with an AK-47, whereas CM Gandapur, Shahid Khatak, and others moved forward in the course of the riot. Amid the rampage, two policemen additionally sustained accidents, the FIR added.

The event got here a day after Gandapur categorically refused to apologise for his “vitriol” in the course of the Islamabad rally on September 8, stating, “I owe no apology for any wrongdoing, nor am I a slave to the Punjab authorities or anybody else.”

“Why ought to I apologise, and for what purpose, as this apology factor is being repeated time and again,” slammed CM Gandapur whereas addressing the PTI staff by way of video hyperlink. “It is best to search an apology from me and likewise for arresting the get together founder, Imran Khan.”

He then introduced that his get together would maintain its subsequent public gathering in Mianwali subsequent Sunday, adopted by an influence present in Rawalpindi.