SWABI: Pakistan Peoples Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders said in their separate meetings here on Saturday that the public meeting of Pakistan Democratic Movement in Peshawar on Nov 22 would be a referendum against the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government.

Javid Inqilabi, PPP divisional general secretary, told mediapersons after the meeting that they had been holding corner meetings with the workers to ensure big participation in the Peshawar public meeting.

Iftikhar Ahmad Khan, PML-N divisional senior vice-president, expressed confidence that their workers would make a great contribution to the Peshawar meeting.

Awami National Party leaders also continued their meetings with the workers at the union council level. When contacted, ANP leader Mukhtiar Khan said they had got directives from the party high command to muster support of maximum number of workers for the Nov 22 rally.

Meanwhile, MPA Rangaiz Khan alleged in a gathering on Saturday that PDM was a clique of corrupt leaders and opportunists who were rejected by voters in the general elections. He said the PDM leaders ruled the country for a long time, but had failed to deliver.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan would never give NRO to the opposition leaders,” he said.

ARRESTED: Police on Saturday arrested an accused who had allegedly opened fire on a transgender person and seriously injured him, said district police officer Imran Shahid.

When contacted, SHO Farooq Khan told this correspondent that they had recovered a Kalashnikov and pistol from the accused.

Umar Khan, a resident of Hashtnagri, Peshawar, and presently living in Maneri Bala, had allegedly opened fire on a transgender person, identified as Zeeshan, in Swabi a few days ago.

The police had started efforts to arrest him soon after registration of an FIR. According to police, he confessed in initial investigations that he had opened fire on the transgender person.

Published in Dawn, November 15th, 2020