A spokesman of the PIMS hospital in Islamabad Ouasim Chaouatza said to the AFP that “164 injured came to the hospital including two in a critical condition” .
From its side the hospital «Polyclinic» spoke of 70 wounded, which increases to at least 234 the report of casualties.
Thousands of supporters of Imran Khan, a former cricket player who entered politics and is strongly nationalist, and of Tahir ul Kadri, a spiritual leader who lives in Canada, demonstrating daily since the 15th of August in Islamabad, demanding of the prime minister Nawaz Sharif to resign whom the opposition accused of electoral fraud.
Earlier yesterday the Prime Minister issued a statement with which reported that there is no such possibility.
The protesters attempted to besiege the residence of the Prime Minister for the first time yesterday and police made extensive use of tear gas and rubber bullets to repel them.
