Citizens faced huge difficulties due to road blocks and suspension of internet services in Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi due to the protests of a banned organisation in the provincial capital that led to the martyrdom of two police personnel.
As per the details garnered, authorities had deployed police and paramilitary personnel to avoid any untoward incident. The martyred policemen were rushed to hospital in critical condition who later succumbed to their wounds.
Lahore CCPO Ghulam Mehmood Dogran said that they would not allow anyone to take the law into their own hands and would arrest those who took the law into their own hands while preventing the workers of the banned party from going to Islamabad.
The protests have paralyzed the city as internet and traffic has been severely affected in Lahore due to protests by the proscribed organisation while internet service has also been suspended at six places including Samanabad, Sabzazar, Shera Kot, Nawankot, Iqbal Town and Gulshan-e-Ravi.
Roads from Babu Sabu to Scheme Moore and Yateem Khana have been blocked for traffic due to which citizens are facing severe difficulties.
On the other hand, many roads in Islamabad and Rawalpindi have been blocked with containers by the authorities ahead the proscribed party’s protest. In Rawalpindi, the metro bus service has been suspended in light of the planned protest.
The banned outfit had announced that the ‘peaceful’ long march would take place from Lahore to Islamabad after Friday prayers.
Earlier, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar had said that a committee of the senior members of the provincial cabinet had been formed to hold talks with proscribed organisation.
In his recent tweet, Usman Buzdar said that the committee of the senior members of the Punjab cabinet comprises of Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat and Chaudhry Zaheer-ud-Din will hold dialogues with the banned outfit.
“According to the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), we all need to work together for peace and harmony in the country,” he wrote on Twitter.
