City police on Wednesday recovered firecrackers weighing around 400 grams and arrested a man trying to enter the Arbab Niaz Stadium, the venue where Benazir Bhutt was addressing a public meeting, sources said.The man, identified as Rehmat Salam, in his 20s, was caught while carrying explosives in his pocket at the main gate of the stadium. According to police sources, Salam, a resident of Matani village located on city suburbs, was insistent that he was carrying firecrackers because he had just left a marriage party of his relatives.
However, SP City Zafarullah denied any arrest and recovery of firecrackers and said no such incident had taken place.
Meanwhile, a firecracker exploded in a drain, about one and a half kilometers away from the Arbab Niaz Stadium, which falls in the limits of Fiqir Abad Police Station. The security arrangement were tight for the public meeting of PPPP Chairwoman Benazir Bhutto, however, unknown miscreants panicked people by throwing a firecracker in a nullah in front of the Jinnah Islamia College at around 10:30 am.