Student injured in an armed clash. According to reports, a university student was injured in an armed clash between workers of the PML-N and PTI in Abbottabad late Monday night.
According to police, the clash occurred when both parties’ rallies collided. Both sides fired shots at each other, critically injuring a university student passing by.
A student injured in an armed clash was airlifted to a hospital, where his condition was described as critical.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country’s prime minister from 2018 to 2022.
The PTI is one of the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election.
With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country’s largest political party by primary membership as well as one of the largest political parties in the world.
In the 2013 general election, the PTI emerged as a major party with over 7.5 million votes, ranking second by the number of votes and third by the number of seats won. At the provincial level, it was voted to power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
During its time in opposition, the PTI, with the help of popular slogans such as Tabdeeli Arahi Hai (lit. ’change is coming’), mobilized people in rallies over public distress on various national issues, the most notable of which was the 2014 Azadi march.
In the 2018 general election, it received 16.9 million votes—the largest amount for any political party in Pakistan thus far.
It then formed the national government in coalition with five other parties for the first time, with Khan serving as the new Pakistani prime minister. However, in April 2022, a no-confidence motion against Khan removed him and his PTI government from office at the federal level.
Currently, the PTI governs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab at the provincial level and acts as the largest opposition party in Sindh, while also having significant representation in Balochistan.
