KOHAT: MNA Shehryar Afridi and other senior leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have asked the leadership not to accommodate those who stabbed the party in the back.

Speaking at a protest meeting held here on Saturday, they insisted party’s founding chairman Imran Khan had refused to accept any deal to leave the country.

They also asked for giving protection to the party leader Murad Saeed, who they said had been facing life threats.

Mr Afridi warned the leadership against accepting back into the PTI those, who had quit the party when it was in trouble.

The MNA alleged that the establishment was still hatching conspiracies against the PTI through its installed government.

Other speakers, including minister for law and parliamentary affairs Aftab Alam, MPA Shafiullah Jan, candidate for KP-91 Daud Shah, former nazim Naseem Afridi and former MNA from Karak Shahid Khattak, demanded the release of all the PTI activists, including Imran Khan.

They said attempts made by the previous caretaker government and the powers that be to keep the PTI out of assemblies in the Feb 8 election had failed.

They lamented that PTI candidates were stopped from running the election campaign.

GUNNED DOWN: Two people were gunned down in separate incidents here on Saturday.

The police said rivals sitting in an ambush resorted to indiscriminate fire on four people riding two motorcycles after they were returning from a bazaar in Teri area of Karak.

They said Haji Mudassar Khan died on the spot, while his cousin, Faisal, sustained serious bullet wounds. He was shifted to a local hospital, wherefrom he was referred to a Peshawar hospital.

The police said the condition of the injured was serious, adding the two parties had an enmity.

The police filed an FIR against Taj Mohammad, Saleem and Rabnawaz.

The police said the accused fled the scene and raids were being conducted to arrest them.

In the second incident, Rehmatullah of Nari Panos village of Karak, who was living in the posh KDA Township of Kohat, was killed by some assailants.

Published in Dawn, April 7th, 2024