Islamabad: Armed men have attacked PML-N offices across Sindh province and burnt alive a party leader two days after the main opposition party staged a major rally against the Pakistan People's Party-led government.
PML-N offices were ransacked and set on fire in different cities and towns of southern Sindh province, a stronghold of the PPP, late Saturday night, police said.
The armed attackers fired gun sorts in the air, witnesses said.
No one was hurt in the attacks as all the offices were closed at the time of the attacks.
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks but PML-N leaders blamed the ruling PPP and its allies for the incidents.
In a separate incident, unidentified men poured petrol on PML-N leader Rana Shaukat and set him alight while he was sleeping at his home at Changa Manga near Kasur in Punjba province early this morning.
Shaukat was found with severe burn injuries by his relatives.
He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
Shaukat was a relative of Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Mohammed Iqbal.
It could not immediately be ascertained if the attack on Shaukat was linked to the attacks on PML-N offices.
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Sindh's Home Minister Manzoor Wasan condemned the attacks on PML-n offices in the province and ordered an inquiry.
PML-N leaders said unknown men attacked three PML-N offices within an hour.
They said the first attack was carried out in Kandhkot town at around midnight.
Shortly after the first attack, armed men set on fire the PML-N office in Hyderabad, the second largest city in Sindh.
Local PML-N leaders said party chief Nawaz Sharif's posters and pictures were burnt in different parts of the city.
According to the watchman at the PML-n office, four attackers opened fire and escaped after setting the building alight.
The PML-N office in Nawabshah city too was attacked and burnt, police said.
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