
Members of Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah lay on Jinnah Avenue. PHOTO: MUDASSAR RAJA/EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD: Police have launched a still operation of impediment members of a eremite organisation that has been entertainment a sit-in on categorical Jinnah Avenue circuitously D-Chowk given Thursday. At slightest 60 protesters had been reason by a military by Saturday evening.
A few hundred supporters of a Tehreek Labbaik Ya Rasoolallah (TLYR), reason a convene from Lahore to Islamabad on a emanate of new debate surrounding Khatm-e-Nabuwat (Belief in a finality of Prophethood) proviso in choosing laws. The protesters direct that supervision brand and retaliate whoever was behind a change of diction of Khatm-e-Nabuwat declaration, an amendment that was immediately cold and stipulation easy in a strange form.
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Due to a criticism sit-in, categorical Jinnah Avenue and Blue Area have remained close for trade from Kulsum Plaza to D-Chowk given Thursday. Metro train use has also remained dangling in a collateral due to a protest.
The authorities had told a convene organisers to reason a proof during Parade Ground though a protesters abandoned a warning and marched towards a D-Chowk and have been entertainment a sit-in during China Chowk ever since.
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TLYR authority Asif Ashraf Jalali pronounced on Saturday that hundreds of their supporters had been arrested by a police. He pronounced military have been impediment any member who leaves a sit-in venue to make cleansing or go to toilet in circuitously mosques. A few hundred people are still attending a sit-in.
Authorities have also reliable that around 60 people from a sit-in have been arrested so far. Instead of any vital operation opposite protesters, a military modus operandi has been to seize sit-in participants who curve divided from a criticism camp. Law-enforcement crew deployed around criticism site clearly outnumber a protesters.
Police have also purebred an FIR opposite 40-50 unclear TLYR supporters for allegedly violence policemen and damaging
their vehicle.
Meanwhile, a talks between a convene organisers and a supervision group led by Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique are also underneath way, with a final turn holding place on Friday night.
Closure of a Jinnah Avenue and Metro Bus have also caused problems for commuters. While a train use has resumed, it is operational between Saddar Rawalpindi and Faiz Ahmed Faiz hire on 9th Avenue in Islamabad, suspending a operation in many of
the capital.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 29th, 2017.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1544082/1-police-start-arresting-protesters-60-held/