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 keeping with police, over 500 miscreants from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf occasion reached the Mannequin City Lahore residence of the prime minister within the early hours of Wednesday and set ablaze automobiles parked over there.
“In addition they threw petrol bombs contained in the premiere’s home,” a senior police officer of Punjab police informed PTI on Wednesday.
The police official mentioned solely the guards had been current on the prime minister’s home when the miscreants attacked. In addition they set on hearth a police publish 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. In addition they put the limitations there on hearth.
Police mentioned that the protesters set on hearth 14 authorities installations/buildings and 21 police automobiles in Punjab over the last two days — Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the protesters had set ablaze on the Corps Commander Home in Lahore after ransacking it.
The scenario in Lahore and several 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 no less than seven individuals lifeless 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 keep up legislation and order.
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