Imran Khan Arrest: PTI supporters additionally threw petrol bombs contained in the Pak PM’s home.
Lahore:
The supporters of former premier Imran Khan on Wednesday attacked the Lahore residence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, police mentioned.
In response to police, over 500 miscreants from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering reached the Mannequin City Lahore residence of the prime minister within the early hours of Wednesday and set ablaze automobiles parked over there.
“Additionally they threw petrol bombs contained in the premiere’s home,” a senior police officer of Punjab police advised PTI on Wednesday.
The police official mentioned solely the guards have been current on the prime minister’s home when the miscreants attacked. Additionally they set on hearth a police put up there.
“As a heavy contingent of police reached there, the PTI protesters left,” he mentioned.
Earlier than reaching the prime minister’s residence, the mob attacked the ruling PML-N Secretariat in Mannequin City, torching the automobiles parked over there. Additionally they put the obstacles there on hearth.
Police mentioned that the protesters set on hearth 14 authorities installations/buildings and 21 police automobiles in Punjab over the past two days — Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the protesters had set ablaze on the Corps Commander Home in Lahore after ransacking it.
The state of affairs in Lahore and a number of other different cities of Punjab remained tense on Wednesday within the wake of the arrest of PTI chief and former premier Imran Khan by the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a land switch corruption case.
Violent clashes between Imran Khan’s supporters and safety forces have left at the least seven individuals useless and practically 300 injured throughout Pakistan as the military was deployed within the nation’s capital Islamabad, in addition to in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces on Wednesday to take care of legislation and order.
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