**PESHAWAR: Police intervened to amicably break up a potential clash between workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and the Awami National Party at a polling station of the NA-31 constituency.

The arrival of PTI MPA Asif Khan at the Municipal Inter-Girls College polling station elicited a strong reaction from ANP workers. They claimed that the PTI legislator was trying to influence the election.

The bitter exchange resulted in sloganeering and aggressive posturing, due to which the polling proceess had to be stopped.

Police made a few arrests and ejected the rest of the workers after which polling resumed.

In a separate incident, the security guard of a PTI union council nazim was arrested over a clash with a policeman deployed at the same polling station. The policeman was injured in the altercation, with the guard taken into custody. An FIR has been registered at the Faqirabad police station.

The NA-31 candidates include PTI chief Imran Khan, ANP leader Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Mohammad Aslam of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Saeedullah Khan of the Rah-i-Haq Party, Abdul Qadir of the Tehreek-i-Jawanan Pakistan, former MNA Shaukat Ali, who had vacated this seat and is a covering candidate for Mr Imran, and independent candidates Emran Khan and Shaukat Ali.