LAHORE: Amjad Chaudhry, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Youth Wing president, and five others were injured in a shootout started by the former on Montgomery Road on Wednesday. The PML Youth Wing president had gone to Montgomery Road to buy car parts, said Liaqat, the Qilla Gujjar Singh police station duty officer. "Chaudhry told the employees of Ahad Motors to tend to his car before serving other customers, and later tried to force the shop owner Adeel Butt to reduce the price of items he had bought," said the police official. Butt refused and Chaudhry left threatening to return to "take care of him", he added.
"Chaudhry returned later with two unidentified men and shot at Butt ," said Liaqat. Butt's brothers, Amir and Wahid, and friend Mirza Suhail Baig stepped in front of the shooters to try and save him, and were also shot, he said. Wahid managed to take a gun out of his desk, and shot and injured Chaudhry, he added. "Butt, Amir, Wahid, Baig and Chaudhry were taken by a passing police mobile to a hospital and are in stable condition." No case had been registered because both parties had not filed an application, said the police official. All shop owners at Montgomery Road closed their shops and protested the incident. |