Karachi Police have registered a case against PTI Sindh President Ali Haider Zaidi and 17 other party workers under terrorism and other charges for clashes with rival political activists outside the Keamari deputy commissioner’s (DC) yesterday evening, local media reported on Thursday.
On Sunday, 16 districts in Sindh held the local government elections’ second round.
The clashes followed Sunday’s local government elections, the contentious results of which were called into question by the PTI and Jamaat-i-Islami, whose workers took to the streets yesterday.
PTI and PPP workers had clashed outside the Keamari DC office on Wednesday evening, where the PTI accused the PPP of attacking its workers while the Keamari DC maintained that PTI workers forcibly entered the office and harassed staff.
Site-A police registered the first information report (FIR), at 7:20pm yesterday on a complaint of Kashif Mobin, the district manager of the People’s Service Centre at the Keamari DC office.
The FIR has been registered under Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-terrorism Act, 2017 along with Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 324 (attempt to commit qatl-i-amd), 506-b (punishment for criminal intimidation), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 380 (theft in dwelling house, etc), and 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) 1860.
Attack on us!
Our people get injured!
Media personal get injured!
And they cut FIR’s on us!#ZardariMafia at work! pic.twitter.com/LQb0UBaqjc— Ali Haider Zaidi (@AliHZaidiPTI) January 18, 2023
However, according to Site-A Station House Officer Zulfiqar Ali Bajwa, no one has been arrested so far.
Following the registration of the initial FIR, Ziadi shared a copy of it in the early hours of Thursday, lamenting “attack on us […] and they cut FIRs on us!”.
Moreover, Separately, Aziz Bhatti police filed an FIR late Wednesday night against 14 named Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) workers and unidentified others on the complaint of RO Shahana Rizwan, who alleged that some 300-400 JI workers attacked her car hours earlier.
