SADIQABAD, May 10: Eight people sustained injuries in a clash to occupy the bus stand for airconditioned coaches in Zahir Pir Chowk on the GT Road on Friday.

Windowpanes of many coaches and a nearby PCO were damaged when two rival groups traded fire and hurled bricks at each other.

A DSP along with personnel from three police stations reached the spot and restored order. However, the situation is still tense.

The stand has been run by Zahir Pir union council Nazim Qamar Din Khan, the son of PPP ex-MPA Muhammad Nawaz Khan Rind, for the last many years. In the meantime, landlord Sardar Husain Bakhsh Rind Baloch set up a new stand in front of the Nazim’s and started plying airconditioned buses from there. A scuffle took place between the staff of the two groups a few days ago.

On Friday, about a hundred supporters of Qamar Din tried to occupy the stand of Husain Bakhsh. Haji Khurshid Ahmad, Tufail Ahmad, Muhammad Khan, Sharif Ahmad, Ayaz Ahmad, Abdul Khaliq, M Sharif and Muhammad Akhtar sustained injuries in the clash which followed.