Early Times Report
SAFAPORA, Sept 3: Police swung into action Monday evening to rescue the Higher Education Minister's, Muhammad Akber Lone's cavalcade from angry stone pelters at Safapora (Manasbal) in his (Sumbal) constituency Monday evening.
Eyewitnesses said the Minister was on a visit to different areas of his constituency when youth at different places like Kondabal, Safapora, Barkati Mohalla attacked his cavalcade with stones.
They said the security personnel accompanying the Minister exercised restraint and did not use force to disperse the pelters. "It were the policemen who saved the Minister. They provided him cover and took him out from the troubled areas," one of witnesses said.
Station House Officer, Safapora, Manzoor Ahmed Mir denied the reports of stone pelting as baseless. "No stone-pelting incident occurred during the visit of the Higher Education Minister," he said.
"It is absolutely baseless. Youth did not attack the cavalcade of the Minister," he said.
Pertinently, Lone was targeted by youth in Hajin and Safapora in the past as well. |
