Panic and tension gripped Dir Bala district after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf workers and police clashed over holding a party’s convention in the area on Saturday.
The PTI workers were arriving at the site to participate in the workers’ convention in Sahibabad area of Upper Dir district.
However, the district administration had imposed Section 144 – under which the gathering of more than five people is banned – and blocked roads leading to the site of the gathering.
The clash broke out when policemen attempted to stop some PTI workers at Chukiatan, as they pelted stones at police.
During the clash, a PTI worker and a policeman sustained bullet injuries and were shifted to hospital for medical assistance.
PTI’s Omar Ayub Khan claimed that the police resorted to firing on the PTI workers who arrived to participate in party’s convention.
“The Election Commission of Pakistan should tell if it is busy in holding rigged elections?” he wrote.
