Eyewitness account: PTI playbook, stealing obstacles one during a time
Swabi military on domestic activists of PTI during Swabi rotate on Monday. The anti-goverment PTI procession was heading by CM KPK Pervez Khattak. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR: Chanting slogans of ‘Go Nawaz, Go’ and dancing to celebration songs, hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activists armed with batons, slingshots and celebration flags hoisted on their vehicles started marching towards Bani Gala on a Peshawar-Islamabad motorway on Monday.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak was heading from a front as a convene started a tour during 4 in a afternoon from a celebration base-camp during Swabi.
The convene was armed with cranes [for stealing containers from a roads], excavators [for stealing silt piles] and bike-riders followed by a motorcade of a arch minister, his cupboard members and pedestrians.
The convene was pierce uniformly until it reached a Haroonabad Bridge on a Motorway that is on a fringes of K-P-Punjab border. The convene transformation was halted by a overpass blocked by containers and piles of silt placed after a containers. A sum of 8 containers were placed on a overpass and a silt piles were dumped after a containers.
As cranes and machine proceeded to mislay a containers, a military and crew of a Frontier Constabulary watchful for a convene during a other side of a containers’ wall resorted to teargas shelling, branch a area into a battleground.
The protesters were diluted by a power of a shelling since no one could mount by CS gas. Some of a protestors torched a underbrush nearby a motorway to revoke a power of teargas while others were bustling fighting with a military and crew of a FC.
“I forgot to pierce a facade or a plain cloth along that is because we am too most influenced by teargas,” pronounced Zahoor Ahmed, 32, while soaking his face with a bottle of water.
Zahoor was committed to strech Islamabad during a call of his celebration authority and he was charity his H2O bottle to others who were rubbing their eyes and cleaning their throats.
The initial spell of teargas shelling panicked a protesters and many of them started jumping off a fences enclosing a motorway.
“The teargas contains some kind of chemicals that were causing suffocation and blazing their ears along with eyes,” complained Mohammad Ali, an romantic from Swabi who was covering his face with his crony in a woollen shawl.
Khalid Khan, an romantic of a PTI from Mardan, brought water, blankets and snacks along as he suspicion they might spend a night on a motorway.
“We would strech Bani Gala during any cost. we am a constant workman of a PTI. Such vicious attempts of Nawaz supervision can’t deter me and Insha’Allah we would eat a breakfast during Bani Gala with Imran Khan,” Khalid said, adding a supervision should let them pass openly by stealing a barricades; otherwise, they would be obliged for any damages.
When a military were bustling in teargas shelling, a organisation of protesters pennyless a blockade of a motorway and pounded a military and FC with stones regulating their slingshots.
As a atmosphere was floating towards a instruction where a military were stationed, a total outcome of a stones thrown by protesters and teargas forced a military and a FC to shelter after that a protesters again collected on a bridge.
Music and celebration songs were played to kindle a protesters who were ragged out by endless teargas shelling. In a meantime, cranes and excavators private a containers’ layers, silt piles and afterwards petrify slabs, opening a trail for a convene to pierce on that afterwards proceeded towards a Burhan Interchange on a Motorway.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1216838/eyewitness-account-pti-playbook-removing-obstacles-one-time/