Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman sends condolence to the victim’s family, calls off activities for the day
Dubai, UAE : A woman journalist was crushed to death by a vehicle carrying former prime minister Imran Khan in an accident in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, October 30 as he led a convoy along with his supporters towards the capital, a Reuters report in the Khaleej Times, says
“Shocked & deeply saddened by the terrible accident that led to the death of Channel 5 reporter Sadaf Naeem during our March,” Khan said on Twitter.
The incident prompted Khan to halt the “long march” that he is leading towards Islamabad to pressurise the federal government into calling snap elections.
He said Sunday’s activities planned by his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), had been cancelled.
Journalist Qazzafi Butt, who witnessed the incident, told Reuters that Naeem, 40, lost her balance as she tried to climb onto Khan’s truck to get a sound bite from the former premier.
The wheel of the truck ran over her head as she fell on the road, he said. PTI leader Mussarat Jamshed Cheema confirmed that Naeem was run over by Khan’s vehicle. Local police officials did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
The incident occurred as the convoy was near the city of Gujranwala, 220 km (136 miles) from Islamabad. He plans to hold political gatherings in cities along the route to Islamabad to build support.
Since being ousted in April through a parliamentary vote, Khan has held rallies across Pakistan, stirring opposition against a government that is struggling to bring the economy out of the crisis that Khan’s administration left it in.
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