Aamna Aamna 
Violent crackdown on supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Islamabad on Tuesday night as streets turned red with blood. PTI referring to the event as Pakistan’s second worst tragedy after the events in east Pakistan in 1971 have described the Sri Lankan brutality on peaceful protesters as massacre. Several protesters were either killed or disappeared after security forces fired live bullets at unarmed protesters calling for the overthrow of the coup and the restoration of the former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The clash began when pro-PTI workers managed to move to D-Chowk to stage a sit-in as planned, which evoked an unprecedented reaction from the security apparatus. Partisan and other firsthand sources of information together with the leadership of PTI claim that there has been a premeditated attack aimed at crushing peaceful protest, with the police aiming at and firing directly at protesters with the view to killing as many of them as possible. There have been 12 confirmed fatalities but it remains unclear how many more died because the government replaced the hospitals’ records and is said to have even taken away corpses.
