PNN – At the same time as Imran Khan’s supporters are planning to hold a demonstration in Islamabad today, strict security measures have been implemented in the capital of Pakistan and the police have arrested dozens of protesters and announced that they will deal with any violation of laws and disturbances.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, All roads leading to the red zone of Islamabad, where foreign embassies, important government buildings such as the presidential palace, prime minister’s palace and the parliament are located, are blocked using hundreds of containers and a large number of police forces and anti-riot units are stationed in different parts of the Pakistani capital.
The supporters of Imran Khan, the deposed Prime Minister of Pakistan, are going to organize an anti-government demonstration in Islamabad according to the call of their leader, however, the police and law enforcement officials have closed the roads leading to Islamabad, including the intersection of the entrance and exit of the highway, since this morning.
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Yesterday, during a press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan’s interior minister asked the government’s opponents to cancel their plans for demonstrations due to the visit of the Malaysian prime minister and the upcoming meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which is scheduled to be held in Islamabad in the coming weeks.
He warned that no one will be allowed to hold a rally and March in Islamabad and in case of violation and disturbances, the perpetrators will be severely dealt with.
Pakistani news channels, while announcing that the law prohibiting political gatherings and gatherings has been implemented in Islamabad and its suburbs, reported that dozens of supporters of Imran Khan’s party were arrested by the police before the demonstration.
The Tehreek-e-Insaaf party of Pakistan, led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently in prison, continues to protest the results of last year’s elections in this country, and at the same time accuses the judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan of a biased approach to the Justice Movement Party’s petitions.