KARACHI: Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Pervez Elahi of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q), chief of Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Mustafa Kamal among leaders of other opposition parties have denounced the manhandling of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insf’s (PTI) supporters in Islamabad on Thursday evening. Bilawal termed the action of the government a jibe at democracy and said that use of force denoted the government’s fear. Chaudhry Pervez Elahi said that peaceful protest was every political party’s right in a democratic setting. Former information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has criticised the government by claiming that the government has itself begun to paralyse Islamabad. Leaders of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) addressed an emergency press conference in the metropolitan in the evening after workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were baton charged and detained by Islamabad police. Kaira has said that though the ‘lockdown’ strategy was not the right way to go, PTI reserved the right to protest. He accused the government of attempting to suppress protest using force. The former federal minister said that the government held a key to peace in the country that it should be exercising. It was the PPP’s responsibility to help both sides reach an understanding, Kaira added.