Chaos ensued in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday after lawmakers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and PTI-Parliamentarians (PTI-P) exchanged heated words which eventually led to physical fight.
The incident took place after KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s speech in the assembly when PTI’s Nek Muhammad and and PTI-P’s Iqbal Wazir — both hailing from Waziristan — started verbally abusing each other.
The matter then escalated after which Nek engaged in a fight with Iqbal’s supporters which involved fistfighting and kicking in the KP Assembly, leading the security personnel to take action against the lawmakers’ supporters present inside the legislature.
Following the incident, the law enforcers took three supporters of PTI-P’s Iqbal into custody while both the lawmakers were asked to leave the assembly.
Awami National Party’s (ANP) Nisar Baz also recorded his protest in the assembly, saying the opposition does not get enough time to speak on the floor of the house.
“The chief minister was give time to speak. Why don’t we get it? I will state my party’s stance,” said Baz, adding that “[their] decency should not be taken advantage of”.
Earlier today, KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur addressed the assembly session and voiced his loyalty to party founder Imran Khan and cursed the hypocrites.
“May Allah destroy them and their families who are disloyal to PTI, the party’s ideology and Imran Khan […] Don’t buy their claims, they [the government] are afraid of your unity and passion,” he said.
