Islamabad sit-ins

KARACHI: Protesters continued the blockade of major city roads on Sunday in support of a religious group camped out at Islamabad’s Faizabad Interchange. As the federal government has called out army to restore peace in Islamabad after a botched crackdown by security forces to clear the capital's busy artery of hundreds of protesters of Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, protests continued across the country on the second day. Like other parts of the country, dozens of protesters belonging to the same religious group…

FAISALABAD: Chief of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Dr Tahirul Qadri has denied the reports suggesting any deal with the government, adding that if a deal was to be made we would have earlier accepted government’s offer of Rs 30 lac each for the victims, ARY News reported.

LAHORE: Minister for Railways, Khawaja Saad Rafique on Saturday admitted that irregularities did take place in the elections, for which Imran Khan is responsible for he himself had demanded to appoint judicial officials as ROs, ARY News reported.

MULTAN: Senior politician, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi has alleged that there was a plan that we will get 5-10 people killed for toppling the government, while the killing of some prominent figure was also being considered in this regard, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal has said that the Islamabad sit-ins have caused severe damages to the national economy, ARY News reported.

LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader, Qamar Zaman Kaira has suggested the prime minister to take serious stance towards the Islamabad sit-ins, otherwise the 'Go Nawaz Go' slogans could yield results, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Chief of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Dr Tahirul Qadri has refused to accept the joint investigation team (JIT) formed to investigate the murder case against the prime minister over the killing of three PAT workers in Islamabad, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan has entirely rejected the allegations by some government members, which referred to the Islamabad sit-ins as part of the 'London plan', ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister, Pervez Rasheed while criticizing Imran Khan, has said that the PTI chairman tried to put at stake the credibility of the entire electoral system through an unsuccessful attempt, ARY News reported.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has decided to challenge the credibility of the present Parliament and the assemblies in the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan, ARY News reported.