PTI protestors baton-charged in Islamabad

E-Paper | June 06, 2026

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists protesting against rigging in May 2013 elections, were baton-charged by police near Nadra Chowk in the federal capital city on Friday, DawnNews reported.

A scuffle broke out between the protesters, enroute from their party secretariat to the election commission's office, and police personnel outside the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) office in Islamabad after the capital city's administration barred protestors from proceeding into the Red Zone area.

The administration had setup barricades along the way, with concrete blocks and barbed wire, to prevent the protesting party activists from moving ahead.

The protesters shouted slogans against the government and administration.

The district administration said that the demonstrators would not be allowed to proceed beyond Nadra Chowk to enter the Red Zone area.

Despite efforts by PTI's senior leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who tried to control party activists, the protesters crossed the barricades and moved in front of the OPF office where the clash with police personnel took place.

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Umar

May 16, 2014 02:49pm

Why don't IK come - as he's getting very bored as there's nothing to do in KPK, everything is OKAY.

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Nomi

May 16, 2014 02:52pm

when this PTI RIGGING SAGA is going to end ..... Pindi is Rocked by bomb blast ..... POLIO left our Country isolated .......... and what we are doing

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Nuur Hasan

May 16, 2014 03:13pm

Very misleading. The protestors just entered a grey area which wasnt across the barricades and they were standing their peacefully - just shouting rants at government. I believe the Patwarti-oriented policemen didnt like the rants against their masters to they hit back. PTI protestors didnt violate anything.

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asim

May 16, 2014 03:30pm

please let us forget that Nawaz won elections through rigging and so did most of his ministers. Kindly kindly forget the issue that this government came to power through rigging and just forget it about it.

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zak

May 16, 2014 03:35pm

Rigging, polio, bomb blast-all emanate from fraudulent manipulation of electoral ballots. Fix this, the genuine chosen candidate comes and all these issues get addressed and or solved. PTI and IK are trying to fix the first block of the system for all the people of Pakistan not just PTI. So support him not oppose him.

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sadaf

May 16, 2014 05:38pm

poor IK totally failed in kpk and now trying to destabilize the county ..pity u PTI.enough of this drama .

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nadeem

May 16, 2014 06:11pm

IK is being manipulated by those who want Dictator not to be punished and they are playing all there cards one by one , you will see more of these pupits in coming days but i hope he will realize soon and come back to his senses.. IK also want to pressure media not to show problems from kpk and i think media agreed on it under the table. as soon as govt gives more space to those forces all these seasonal frogs will hibernate again.

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Syed

May 16, 2014 07:39pm

Power of people. No barricade our govt can stand in their way.

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Azmat Khan

May 16, 2014 08:21pm

Govt. please harness these street urchins.They want to disturb peace only

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Sarwat

May 17, 2014 02:24am

Look at us all, we have become such losers that we can't even stand for what is right. I did not even vote as I live abroad. Most of the comments here are calling IK's drama and calling for moving on. What about standing for what is right. That includes you and I all of us together, its our future, its our country, its about our rights and its about our nation. We all know what happened in elections was a thefts of our rights, regardless, if we voted for a small party or big, either way its is our loss. When will we wake up and make our country strong. Don't we know the importance and power of our vote. NO ONE CAN PUT A PRICE ON IT!!!

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independentthinker

May 17, 2014 02:48am

Oh man - are they being deprived of what they do best - Protest! Now what will they do?

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salman

May 17, 2014 03:43am

@sadaf so I take it you are happy if parties win seats by rigging? By the way, the govt can end this very quickly. Just carry out the fingerprint verification for those 4 seats won by pml and the four won by pti (which pti have agreed to long back). Anyone who won honestly will not be afraid of this...right?

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Jungraiz Pukhtunyar

May 17, 2014 08:47am

So since PTI won in KPK, does that mean that ANP was not the evil corrupt entitiy PTI made it out to be. Apparently ANP was very honest as no rigging was alleged by PTI.

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