RAWALPINDI: The PTI party of jailed Imran Khan today announced to postpone its scheduled public gathering near Islamabad after the government blocked roads and closed all private and public schools in the federal capital.
The PT in a statement said that the government had planned to create law and order situation and implicate the party in more cases. It said that party leaders including Azam Swati and Umar Ayub Khan met Imran Khan in Adiala jail and informed him about the situation. The PTI founder ordered postponement of today’s public gathering but directed workers to continue preparations for the gathering to be held soon.
The district administration of Islamabad and police had arranged hundreds of shipping containers and blocked main roads especially in the red zone housing Parliament, Supreme Court and embassies of different countries. The district administration also cancelled the NOC issued for the public gathering of the PTI. All educational institutions were closed in Islamabad on Thursday.
The PTI had announced that it would go ahead with its scheduled public gathering at Tarnol area on Thursday evening.
On the other hand, a religious party had announced to hold a really outside the Supreme Court building where a case related to the Ahmadi community member was scheduled to be taken up today.
A few days ago, the religious party had gathered over 6000 people and marched to the red zone despite police codons and barricades and held a protest outside the Supreme Court building calling upon the chief justice of Pakistan to review its earlier decision in the Mubarak Sani case. They also demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan should resign over his decision in the case.
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