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A day after both parties’ workers clashed violently at the site, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari told his party to “find another location” while inviting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to go ahead with his May 12 political gathering at Karachi’s Hakeem Saeed Ground.
More than half a dozen PPP and PTI workers were injured Monday night after both parties set up camp at the same venue and bickered over who had the right to hold a political gathering there.
The PPP chairman, in a series of tweets today, held the PTI responsible for what had transpired the previous night but at the same time told his party to back off “in the interest of peace in Karachi”.
“To attack us in such a way on this tragic day is a sad commentary on the fascist tendencies of PTI,” Bilawal said. “However in the interest of peace in Karachi, which we have fought so hard for, I not only ask my party to find another location, but also invite Imran Khan to hold his jalsa at the Hakeem Saeed ground.”
