Destination Islamabad: Many Hazara residents denied entrance into capital
HARIPUR: To stop PTI supporters in Hazara and over from reaching a capital, Punjab military has barricaded all entrance points from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s biggest division.
Owing to roadblocks, tourists, employees of opposite government, semi-government, private organisations, businessmen and students travelling by GT Road had to stay home.
Following a call of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) authority Imran Khan to deplane on his Bani Gala home, celebration workers from a 6 districts of Hazara multiplication and Gilgit-Baltistan were scheduled to strech a collateral on Monday.
However, a Punjab military blocked a categorical GT Road during Shahiya fee piazza by fixation containers and heaping sand on a highway late on Sunday.
“Till yesterday [Sunday], they (Punjab police) had partially authorised trade from Hazara. But from Sunday night, a categorical artery joining Hazara multiplication and Gilgit-Baltistan with Punjab and other tools of a nation has been totally closed,” pronounced Mustafa, streamer a military post during Jhari Kas, a exit indicate of Hazara, while articulate to The Express Tribune.
He combined that vast containers had been placed on a GT Road from Hazara, frequency withdrawal any space for even motorcycle riders to pass through.
However, a Hattar-Taxila Road and a Khanpur- Taxila Road were open around a day with complicated contingents of Punjab military and FC on alert. Officials had changed shipping containers to these dual roads, though had placed them on a side.
Mushtaq Khan, another Assistant Sub Inspector with a Haripur police, pronounced that officers of Punjab military had told him that they were watchful for orders from their seniors before relocating these containers onto a roads and restraint a routes.
The ASI pronounced that given a situation, military could retard these dual roads during a moment’s notice.
Owing to blockades, foreigners, generally some Chinese visiting opposite projects, had to change their transport plans. However, a military officials were of a perspective that students, bureau workers, and businessmen were a misfortune influenced by a blockades.
Sohail, a proprietor of Haripur who was travelling to Islamabad to revisit a relations hospitalised there, pronounced that he did not face any obstacles while entering a collateral from a Hattar side, though he did protest that trade on a highway was slow. He combined that a genuine problem was during a Sangjani fee piazza where complicated contingents of Punjab military and Islamabad military were checking cars and stopped him from going further.
Meanwhile, Hazara-based PTI workers and leaders chose to join K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khatak’s way during a Swabi rotate around Sirikot -Swabi Road.
Those perplexing to transport to Bani Gala individually, or in tiny groups, opted for a hilly track of Pir Sohawa and Lora.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1216653/destination-islamabad-many-hazara-residents-denied-entry-capital/