The Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rivalry which was earlier confined to rhetoric of top leaders of the political parties seemed to take a violent turn on Sunday.
A PTI office in Hyderabad came under attack by some political activists who were affiliated with the PPP shortly after Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was almost forced to cut short his speech by the alleged PTI workers at a rally held in London to demand right to self determination for Kashmir.
Bilawal left the venue of the London rally after some participants chanted slogans against him and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
According to reports, a number of armed men fired indiscriminate shots in the air and stormed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) office on Sunday night.
“The shooting outside the PTI office in GOR colony left at least two Insaf Students Federation (ISF) activists wounded,” a police official said.
Reports said the attackers brutalised everyone who came in the way of their midnight criminal act. “With the furniture, electronic items and windowpanes etc broken beyond repair, they left the office,” eyewitnesses were quoted as having said.
According to rescue sources, the injured have been shifted to Bhittai Hospital.
PTI’s district president Mustansir Billa alleged that the PPP workers vandalised their office located at Gul Centre and tore posters and banners of the Tehreek-e-Insaf across the city.
He said the PPP workers also resorted to aerial firing. The PTI staged a protest demonstration against the attack on Thandi Sarak.
