Clashes as Pakistan anti-government march advances on capital
Friday, 15 August 2014
Pakistani opposition politician Imran Khan said he and his followers were fired on by government supporters during a rally Friday, but police said that although there were clashes between the two sides no shots were fired. Khan is leading thousands of his supporters to the capital Islamabad in a rally to demand Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign, saying that last year's general elections in which he swept to power were rigged. Police and witnesses said activists from Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party clashed with supporters of Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in the town of Gujranwala, around 200 kilometres (120 miles) southeast of Islamabad. Speaking to ARY television news, Khan said: ‘They threw stones at us while standing at police vans, they fired bullets at us,’ according to AFP.