OKARA, Jan 20: War of words is not new to politics and the latest episode has come to the fore when the PPP and the PML-N leaders have locked horns over the ‘police performance’ in the district.

Some PPP leaders at a press conference (on Monday) alleged that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was not taking action against the corrupt officials at various police stations in Okara and threatened to lead a protest rally against the police, especially at the Shahbore police station.

As the allegation got wind through the print media, PML-N MPA Mian Younis Zaman also held a press conference in which he contested the local PPP leaders’ viewpoint and said they were doing so after the police refused to accommodate them for their unlawful demands.

Calling the PPP demands unjustified, the PML-N MPA said the PPP politicians were unnecessarily dragging the chief minister in the “transfer-posting issue of the lower police officials”. He went on to say that as the PPP was doing politics of agitation, the PML-N would take out a protest rally.

Earlier, PPP’s former MPA Arif Chaudhry at a press conference alleged that officials at various police stations, particularly the Shahbore police station, were corrupt and transferred by the DIG who had to withdraw his orders on the intervention of the chief minister.

Owing to corruption, he alleged, the law and order situation was going from bad to worse and the police had failed to perform their duty.

SHOT DEAD: An agriculturist was shot dead while another was injured by highwaymen on Haveli-Deepalpur Road near Punnu Shah.