RAWALPINDI: At least six people were injured when two groups of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) clashed with each other during a programme organised in Sadiqabad area of the city on Sunday night to celebrate an election tribunal’s verdict de-seating National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.

Sources said that gunshots were fired from both sides.

The injured were rushed to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital.

A woman and her young son were among the injured.

Sadaqat Abbasi, a PTI leader and member of the provincial assembly, told Dawn that some activists of the PTI were celebrating the election tribunal’s decision when some of them clashed over an issue.

However, he added, the cause of the clash was yet to be known.

Mr Abbasi said no other political party was involved in the clash.

The sources said panic and fear gripped the area when the firing took place. However, police reached the area shortly afterwards.

No arrest was made till late in the night.

Published in Dawn, August 24th, 2015

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