At least three protestors killed and 32 others were injured in the result of the clashes
between protesters protesting against the electricity load shedding and
for Chasma power plant royalty here in mianwali on Monday.
The incident happen when the police tried to stop the participants
of the long march from going towards chashma power plant, resulting in
clashes between police and protesters.
Meanwhile DPO Mianwali Waqas Nazir and DCO were among the injured in result of clash between protestors and policemen.
The police baton charged, fired shells of tear gas and aerial firing
to disperse the crowd but the mob turned violent and the protesters
pelted stones on the police in the result of the clash. As a result,
three people killed and 32 others were injured including DCO, DPO, SHO
and 20 policemen.
The protesters burnt many vehicles including police mobiles. The
protestors demanded for the uninterrupted power supply and royalty of
Chasma Power Plant. They said the production of power plant is 950mw
and the load shedding had been observed for 18 hours in a day, which is
great injustice with the people of the area. The protestors also held
the DPO Mianwali hostage, afterwards freed by police.
According to a private TV channel two thousand rangers personnel
were reached and took control of the area. The protestors surrounded
the policemen and snatched the guns; meanwhile the police arrested a
suspected person from the scene and recovered a pistol from his
custody.
While talking to a private TV channel injured DPO Mianwali Waqas
Nazir said that time and again tried to inform the protesters that
interruption of power is the problem of federal government but they
cross two barriers and reached in third barrier where the policemen
tried to stop them as a result of which the protestors attacked the
policemen and administration of power plant resulted more than 20
policemen including DCO were injured.
He said it is not the problem of load shedding but some enemies of
the country wanted to target the power plant by taking benefit of the
protest. Time and again it is said to the protesters that there is no
relation between declaring Mian Wali shedding free zone with moving
towards Chasma power plant.
Meeting with the peoples of different parties taking part in this
protest had been held but the protesters violated the promise by moving
towards the power plant.
Waqas Nazir said that the protesters wanted to take lives of the
policemen and administration personnel by dividing them in to small
groups.
He said we used minimum force to disperse the protestors and one of
the protesters had received bullet injury in his leg but his death
happened in the result of the cardiac arrest, adding that the situation
is under control after the arrival of extra police force.
Acting DPO Mianwali Imran Mehmood while talking to a private TV
channel said that eight to nine policemen were injured including DCO
and DPO, adding that police had not opened fire on the protesters and
no person was killed in the result of the police firing.
He asked the media to present both sides of the coin instead of one
sided reporting, adding that the media should not mislead the people
over the issue. SANA
