GUJRANWALA: Scores of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders andworkers including former minister for defense Khurram Dastgir Khan wereinjured during clashes between stone-pelters and policemen on GT road nearKamoki, a town of Gujranwala district of Punjab.
Reportedly, responding to their leaders’ calls to show up and demonstratetheir support for Nawaz and Maryam on their return to Pakistan, thousandsof PML-N workers started assembling near toll plaza of Kamoki under theleadership of Khurram Dastgir Khan, PML-N deputy mayor Salman Khalid PomiButt and PML-N youth-wing president Shoaib Butt.
Meanwhile, the police officers did not allow them to pass through while theworkers chanted full-throat slogans in favour of ousted prime ministerNawaz Sharif and against the caretaker government.
Consequently, a brawl erupted between workers and policemen followed bystone pelting from workers and shelling from policemen when the workerstried to remove the hurdles forcibly.
Resultantly, dozens of workers were injured while hundreds of them werearrested by the police.