Prior to a protest rally in Islamabad planned for Sunday by former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ( PTI ) party, Pakistani authorities have sealed national highways and motorways across the country.
Imran’s more than one-year-long imprisonment is the primary goal of PTI’s opposition, which his party says are politically motivated complaints. The group also wants to require steps to protect criminal democracy, which it claims has been hampered by the 26th Constitutional Amendment, and speak out against the rigging of the Feb. 8 general elections. The state denies this.
The government of PM Shehbaz Sharif has promised to fully halt PTI’s strength show and has made arrests a matter of minutes if someone joins the demonstration.
In an effort to halt the demonstration, the government set up security forces, imposed a severe restrictions on meetings, blocked all highways with freight containers in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and cracked down on opposition party leaders and workers.
According to authorities 6, 325 officers of the Islamabad police, alongside 21, 500 personnel from other forces — 5, 000 Rangers ( armed force ), 5, 500 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, 9, 000 Punjab police officers, and 2, 000 Sindh police officers have been deployed to prevent PTI activists from entering the capital city.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif criticized the government’s decision to block major highways and motorways and seal Islamabad, arguing that allowing protesters to enter the money could lead to even greater destruction.
But, Ali Amin Gandapur, PTI’s CM of northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reiterated the visit to all Pakistanis to meet the opposition. In a video message, he declared,” It is impermanent for us to keep our homes to rally Imran Khan’s unlawful imprisonment.” He continued, citing PTI’s demands for Khan’s launch as well as the profit of its mandate in the previous general election, which the organization claimed was rigged to keep it out of power.” We all have to approach Islamabad and never left until our demands are met.”
We wo n’t go back until our demands are satisfied, he vowed.
The Pakistani legislature passed legislation earlier this year that established guidelines for public demonstrations in the funds, including designated protest regions and rally times. Offenders, according to the law, chance prison of up to three years for unlawful gatherings and up to 10 times for duplicate crimes.
