ISLAMABAD: A CCTV footage showing some transgender persons physically attacking Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Raoof Hasan in Islamabad has gone viral on social media, here on Tuesday.
PTI leader Qasim Khan Suri shared a video of the attack on Hasan on his Instagram page.
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He was attacked outside the office of a private news channel.
The footage shows a transgender person stopping Hasan in the parking lot and then grabbing him from his shirt after exchanging a few words with him.
As soon as the first transgender person grabs Hasan from his shirt, three others appear from the other side and start hitting the PTI spokesperson physically.
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PTI condemned the knife attack on the party’s Central Information Secretary. “PTI will never give up its struggle for fear of these cowardly attacks,” part said in a statement on X.
In a separate statement, the former ruling party said the act is extremely shameful and deplorable, adding that if the spokesperson of the “largest party” can be attacked in the federal capital in broad daylight, then “what can we make of the safety of others”.
