Police reported supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan stormed Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Lahore residence on Wednesday.
According to police, approximately 500 miscreants from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party stormed the prime minister’s Model Town Lahore mansion in the early hours of Wednesday and set ablaze vehicles parked there.
According to a police official, only the guards were present at the prime minister’s residence when the miscreants assaulted. They also set fire to a police station there.
“As a heavy contingent of police reached there, the PTI protesters left,” he said.
Before reaching the prime minister’s residence, the mob attacked the ruling PML-N Secretariat in Model Town, torching the vehicles parked over there. They also put the barriers there on fire.
Police said that the protesters set on fire 14 government installations/buildings and 21 police vehicles in Punjab during the last two days — Tuesday and Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the protesters had set ablaze at the Corps Commander House in Lahore after ransacking it. The situation in Lahore and several other cities of Punjab remained tense on Wednesday in the wake of the arrest of PTI chief and former premier Imran Khan by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a land transfer corruption case.
Violent clashes between Imran Khan’s supporters and security forces have left at least seven people dead and nearly 300 injured across Pakistan as the army was deployed in the country’s capital Islamabad, as well as in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces on Wednesday to maintain law and order.