A Pakistani court on Wednesday restrained a cricketer-turned politician and a Canada-based populist cleric from launching a march on Islamabad in an unconstitutional way, a lawyer said. The Lahore High Courts order came as authorities blocked almost every entry point to Islamabad on Wednesday, with more than 20,000 police and paramilitary forces deployed to try to thwart a major anti-government rally. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) are restrained from launching a march/sit-in in Islamabad in any unconstitutional way keeping in view sensitivity of independence day and current uncertain situation in the country, PTIs lawyer Ahmad Owais said in Lahore quoting from a short order by a three-judge panel headed by Justice Khalid Mehmood. Major roads were barricaded with shipping containers and police used excavators to dig up smaller roads in Islamabad, a day before two opposition protest marches are due to converge on the capital. Imran Khan and Canada-based preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri, who heads PAT, plan to march on the city on Thursday, Pakistans independence day, to demand Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign and call fresh elections.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:42:25 +0000
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