- Fazal Shakoor first takes police officers to a constructing.
- Labour minister protects cops from celebration activists.
- Officers handed over to Punjab Police, says Gandapur.
ISLAMABAD: Enraged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staff, accompanying Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minsiter Ali Amin Gandapur’s convoy, subjected three police officers to torture on Peshawar-Islamabad motorway in Attock.
The aforementioned Punjab police officers, who acquired wounded within the incident, had been posted on a bridge passing over River Haro. Upon listening to the policemen being subjected to torture by celebration supporters, KP Labour Minister Fazal Shakoor rushed to the location and rescued the cops.
The minister first took them to a constructing from the place they had been moved out by way of a ladder to guard them from the PTI supporters’ wrath.
Shakoor stated the celebration activists had been adamant that the officers needs to be handed over to them, however he ensured that they had been protected.
Whereas asserting to name off the protest and return to KP, CM Gandapur had talked about in his speech on Saturday that his celebration staff had caught policemen however they handed them over to Punjab Police with respect.
After clashes between regulation enforcement officers and political celebration staff, the PTI had postponed its protest in Rawalpindi on Saturday.
Commenting on the conflict, the KP CM on Sunday said that his celebration would reply to each bullet, tear fuel shell, and baton strike towards its supporters.
The firebrand PTI chief claimed bullets had been fired on three of their staff and whereabouts of certainly one of them couldn’t be traced.
“Greater than 50 PTI staff have been injured in shelling as shells and bullets had been fired each three kilometres on us,” he stated.
Gandapur stated this after returning to Peshawar because the PTI protest in Rawalpindi was “known as off” amid violent clashes between protesters and riot police close to Liaquat Bagh.
The Gandapur-led convoy remained caught on the interchange for a number of hours as a result of closure of roads because the authorities had positioned containers at Burhan Interchange in an try and thwart PTI’s protest.
Addressing the members, the KP chief govt directed them to return to Peshawar and castigated the federal government for not granting PTI its “constitutional proper”.
Vowing to return again with “all assets”, he regretted that the police fired teargas and rubber bullets on the protesters.
However, Gandapur stated, many police officers had been caught by the celebration activists however he rescued them.
“They [police] have set a precedent of firing bullets […] We even have weapons,” he said.
In the meantime, he saluted the residents of KP and Rawalpindi Division over their assist for the previous ruling celebration.