Pakistan Information Minister Ataullah Tarar on Saturday said the man seen in a viral video falling from a container during a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protest in Islamabad is “completely fine.”
Speaking to the media, Tarar said that the man suffered minor injuries in the incident, as reported by Dawn.
A viral video shot during a protest at Islamabad’s D-Chowk shows people dressed as security personnel in riot gear pushing a man off a stack of three shipping containers.
PTI supporters were demanding the release of their leader and party chief Imran Khan.
On 26 November, the protests turned violent and PTI supporters were subjected to intense tear gas shelling by security forces.
According to Dawn, a photographer captured a picture of a man hanging from the edge of the container while uniformed men stand over him.
A video of the incident also went viral, leading to various claims on social media, with some posts alleging that the man had died.
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Rejecting these claims, Minister Tarar said, “It was propagated that a person offering Namaz was pushed to death. He is a resident of Mandi Bahauddin and is completely fine. His video has surfaced, his hand is injured and bandaged.
Tarar further claimed that the man was recording a TikTok video as part of a challenge with a friend and was not praying at the time, reported Dawn.
Earlier, Awami National Party (ANP) president Aimal Wali Khan had called for banning political parties inciting violence, including PTI.
Speaking at a press conference with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi at the ANP Central Secretariat in Wali Bagh on Friday, Khan said the PTI has been working in an undemocratic and non-political manner since its formation and has always failed to serve the people. Have been encouraged to behave violently. Manner.
He termed PTI as “waste that should be disposed of” and said the state had imposed PTI on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the last 12 years but such decisions had not yielded good results, Dawn reported.
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