Peshawar: Commenting on the recent clashes between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers and police in Rawalpindi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur said his party will respond to every bullet, tear gas and baton. strike against her supporters. In a statement on Sunday, the PTI leader said that bullets were fired at three of their workers and the whereabouts of one of them could not be traced. “More than 50 PTI workers were injured in shelling as shells and bullets were fired at us every three kilometers,” he said. Chief Minister KP Gandapur said this after returning to Peshawar when a PTI protest in Rawalpindi was “called off” amid violent clashes between protesters and riot police near Liaquat Bagh. The convoy led by Gandapur was stuck at the interchange for several hours due to road closures as authorities placed containers to exchange Burhan in an attempt to thwart the PTI protest. Addressing the participants and ordering them to return to Peshawar, the KP Director General criticized the government for not giving PTI a “constitutional right”. Vowing to return “by all means”, he regretted the police’s use of tear gas and rubber bullets against the protesters. On the other hand, Gandapur said that dozens of police officials were caught by party activists but he rescued them. “[The police] set a precedent of firing bullets […] We also have guns,” he said. Meanwhile, he saluted the people of KP and Rawalpindi Division for their support to the former ruling party.
