ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Federal Interior Ministry Saturday directed the local administration to postpone operation against religious parties, who are staging sit-in in Faizabad area, for another 24 hours.
Ultimatum of Islamabad High Court (IHC) given to protesters in the Federal Capital belonging to Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah and Sunni Tehreek has expired at 10:00 pm on Friday after which contingents of Pakistan Rangers and Frontier Corps (FC) have been deployed at the sit-in site for operation.
The administration has ordered police to remain on high-alert and some of the entry points of Islamabad have been blocked using containers.
Residents of Faizabad and Sector I-8 have also been ordered to stay in houses and avoid inter-city movement while the protesters were also offered an alternate place to record their peaceful protest.
In a press Conference held in Islamabad on Friday, the Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal urged the representatives of religious groups, protesting at Faizabad interchange in Islamabad, to call off their sit-in and obey law of the land in larger interest of the Country.
The minister again invited them for talks to remove their reservations about Khatm-e-Nabuwwat law if any. He said the government wanted to end the sit-in peacefully through dialogue.
Ahsan Iqbal further said the Parliament had already made finality of Prophethood law foolproof, and there was no ambiguity and shortcoming in it.
