Police greeted KP CM's convoy with tear gas at Burhan Interchange
Police resorted to tear gas shelling at convoy of KP CM Pervez Khattak when it reached Buhan.
BURHAN (Dunya News) – Police have greeted the motorcade of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister (CM), Pervez Khattak and activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on reaching the Burhan Interchange at the Motorway on late Monday night, Dunya News reported.
The long motorcade of CM Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is also equipped with crane and bulldozers which are being used to clear their way as Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in the centre has placed dozens of shipping containers on roads to block their entry into Islamabad to join their leader Imran Khan who has announced to stage a protest rally on Wednesday (November 2).
Police clashed with PTI workers when they tried to remove barricades put in place by police at the Burhan Interchange. The area gave a look of a battle field when police subjected the PTI activists to shelling of tear gas. Angry PTI workers set bushes on fire on either side of the Motorway in protest.
Earlier in the day, the law enforcers subjected the convoy of CM Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and activists of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to shelling of tear gas as they attempted to enter Punjab at Swabi Interchange on the motorway to reach Islamabad for November 2 protest.
Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for Information, Mushtaq Ghani talked to Dunya News minutes into the clash and reported that the police had fired dozens of shells not discriminating among children and women.
He asserted that the federal government would have to explain the alleged torture on peaceful protesters.
It should be noted here that Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak was part of the flock of party enthusiasts that was ‘attacked’.
Indiscriminate and heavy tear gas shelling has injured more than two dozen PTI workers who have been shifted to the nearby hospitals.
The clashes took place two days ahead of PTI’s purported lockdown of the federal capital against premier Nawaz Sharif’s alleged corruption, an issue raised by PTI among other opposition parties after Panama Papers published details of offshore companies owned by Prime Minister’s (PM) two sons.
Activists of PTI, following call of their leader Imran Khan, began to reach Islamabad and Bani Gala as the protest day neared.
Different protesters-police clashes were reported last week and over the weekend in Bani Gala where police and Frontier Corps (FC) are continuing to cordon off Imran Khan’s residence.
