PPP leader questions delay in Wazirabad incident FIR.

LAHORE -- The PPP Central Punjab general secretary has questioned the inordinate delay in the registration of the first information report (FIR) of Wazirabad firing incident in which the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief was allegedly injured.

'It is very astonishing that Chief Minister Parvez Elahi has not yet been able to register an FIR of the attack on Imran Khan in his own [Gujrat] division,' PPP leader Syed Hassan Murtaza said here on Friday.

Reacting to the attack on Imran Khan, Murtaza said a special session of the Punjab Assembly was called by the ruling party but Mr Elahi could not register an FIR of the incident.

He said the murder of Muazzam Gondal, a victim of the firing incident, had also been ignored by the Punjab government so far and his case too had not yet been registered.

Says PTI focusing on politicising the incident instead of investigation

He lamented that the PTI was focusing on politicising the incident instead of investigating it to unearth the mastermind behind the attack.

'It is surprising that confessional statements of the accused are being released from the police custody while provincial chief executive Parvez Elahi does not even know about it.'

The PPP leader rejected the PTI's demand...

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