KP govt approves financial package for PTI workers who were killed, injured at D-Chowk protest

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet has approved a financial package for the families of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers who were killed or wounded during three days of the party's protest from November 24 to 26 in Islamabad.

Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, spokesperson for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, said on Monday that families of the deceased party workers will get Rs10 million each while the injured party workers will receive Rs1 million each. He said the provincial government is verifying the names of the party workers who were killed or wounded at Islamabad’s D-Chowk and they will be disbursed the financial aid as soon as the verification process is completed.

PTI initially claimed that hundreds of party workers were killed during clashes with security forces in the federal capital Islamabad on the night of November 26, but it retracted its claim later and said that 12 people lost their lives at the protest.

After a meeting with PTI founder Imran Khan at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan told the media that they provided information about the Islamabad protest to Imran Khan. "Due to a lack of access to newspapers and TV, the founder was unaware of what had transpired in Islamabad on November 26," said Gohar.

However, the federal government and its agencies rejected PTI's claims and said that no party worker was killed in the D-Chowk clashes with the Islamabad Police, Rangers and the troops of the armed forces of Pakistan.