HYDERABAD: Two activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) were injured when suspects attacked them during a protest over the alleged ransacking of the party’s office in the GOR Colony late on Sunday night.

PTI district president Dr Mustansir Billa claimed that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) workers attacked and ransacked his party’s office and thrashed Insaf Students Federation (PTI student wing) district president Umar Shaikh and others.

He said that PTI activists were burning tyres in the locality to record their protest when a group of PPP activists again came and started firing into the air forcing the protesters to flee.

Mr Billa said two PTI activists were injured but it was not clear whether they received bullet wounds. He alleged that the attackers also took away four motorcycles belonging to PTI workers.

At a distance from the scene of the alleged attack, scores of charged PPP activists gathered outside the local press club and raised slogans against the PTI for disrupting PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s speech at the Kashmiris’ million march in London.

The protesters also torched posters of PTI chief Imran Khan.

Regarding the London incident, PPP Senator Saeed Ghani said PTI activists along with some Indians tried to stop Mr Bhutto-Zardari from making his speech and some people threw plastic bottles and other objects at him using objectionable language.

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2014