RAWALPINDI, Oct 2: Several activists of Sunni Tehreek (ST) were booked by the City police for damaging the assassination site of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (BB), tearing apart her posters and uprooting the fences around the monument, source said.

However, police have made no arrests in this connection so far.

The case was registered on the complaint of Station House Officer (SHO) City, Inspector Mirza Yousuf who said that he was on duty near Liaquat Bagh when a large number of protesters chanting anti-government slogans appeared marching there.

He said the participants of the rally who were more than fifteen hundred in number gathered near the monument of assassinated PM and their leaders including Hafeez Qureshi started addressing the rally.

In the meantime, some of the participants of the rally started tearing posters of former PM and torched tyres to block the road.

Meanwhile, another small rally whose participants were carrying sticks and banners inscribed with slogans against the government and in support of Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed assassin of Governor Salman Taseer, who was sentenced to death twice by the Anti-Terrorism court, reached there and joined the big rally.

He further said in his complaint that the participants of the small rally started damaging the monument of Benazir Bhutto; however, the police had to intervene to disperse the angry mob.

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