Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday claimed to have identified the attackers of its central information secretary Sherry Rehman and demanded an action in this case.
A PPP press release claimed that the woman who had supposedly attacked Rehman was spotted in TV footage recorded by a private channel. The same woman attacker visited Rehman in hospital pretending to be a reporter, it said. “Rehman was seen in the TV footage standing with her fellow party workers as Raza Rabbani addressed the rally. She suddenly fell and the suspected attacker was standing on her back,” the release said.
It said that Rehman was then seen complaining about something pointing at her neck in a pain. It says the suspected attacker remained calm during the disturbance, which showed that she was confident of the results of her attack.
It said that the suspected woman visited Rehman in hospital after the party had acquired the video tape, adding that the woman told party workers that she was a reporter and come by to ask after RehmanÂ’s health. Party leaders including Makhdom Amin Fahim said the attack was carried out after RehmanÂ’s campaign against rigging in by-polls in Sindh, during which leaders of other parties had also been targeted. |