Federal Interior Minister Sheryar Khan Afridi has suffered from hairline fracture in his right arm on Wednesday while visiting Gilgit.
Sources said that as a result of the discomfort, the minister has done away with checking security arrangements concerning Youm-e-Ashura. He went off duty on the advice of the doctors.
Sources disclosed that during a seminar held at a Marriot hotel in Islamabad on “global peace in war and dispute” an unknown participant jerked him from opposite side while shaking hands putting him in aching conditions.
Afridi ignored it but later on the pain intensified, forcing him to go off-duty and take rest on the instructions of the doctors. He tried to keep the incident to him only but when the ache went from bad to worse he was seen in intense discomfort.
Because of pain, all scheduled programs in the twin city, Peshawar and Lahore have been deferred. Sources said that Sheryar Afridi was to attend briefing scheduled to be given by the Home Secretary and Chief Commissioner in control room Peshawar but due to ailing health he could not visit there.