The information minister says the man on top of the container was creating TikTok rather than praying.

Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on Saturday that a man whose video has gone viral of being forced down from a container top during Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) protest was not praying. “He wasn’t praying, but filming a TikTok video,” the information told reporters in Rawalpindi, as the video of the man went viral, wherein he was being forced down a container at D-Chowk and people censuring authorities. Explaining further, Tarar refuted PTI’s claims, saying the party was spreading propaganda that the man had been praying before being pushed and killed. The minister clarified that the individual, a resident of Mandi Bahauddin, was alive and well, having sustained injuries on his hand.