PESHAWAR--A ceremony to celebrate the 77th birthday of the founder of Pakistan People’s Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was disrupted when two rival groups PSF scuffled, pointing pistols at each other. One of the groups is not ready to accept Rahimdad Khan as party provincial president. According to details, a ceremony was arranged at Nishtar Hall here on Thursday to celebrate PPP’s founder birthday. When the party provincial president Rahimdad Khan came to stage to deliver speech, a group headed by Ejaz Ahmad Khan Semab tried to stop him from delivering speech, while the other group headed by Ejaz Yousafzai was supporting provincial chief. The two groups scuffle and pointed pistols at each other. The scuffle spread fear among the participants, who run away from the hall. In the meantime police entered the hall and the dissidents were ousted from the hall. Interestingly the police neither recovered any pistol nor arrested any student. Referring to the incident Rahimdad Khan termed it a routine matter and said that being the leader of political party he had to listen to appreciation and criticism against him. He said that matter would be resolved soon. |