State writ to be established at any cost: Sheikh Rasheed

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said on Thursday that the writ of state will be established at any cost, ARY News reported.

While commenting over the ongoing protests of the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Sheikh Rasheed said that all demands of the protestors were accepted and there was no reason for continuing the protests.

The interior minister said that the advancement of the TLP march will be stopped at any cost. He added that the government is ready to hold talks with TLP if the protestors agreed to return to their centre.

He said that permission will not be granted to block GT Road. He said that another round of talks will be held with Saad Rizvi on Friday and Saturday.

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Sheikh Rasheed said that conspiracies are in making to impose global sanctions on Pakistan. He added that the police force was not given the powers which the department was seeking from the government.

He said that TLP should play a political role as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had not imposed any restriction. The interior minister clarified that the federal government will not bow down and state writ will be established at any cost.

Earlier in the day, it emerged that a deadlock persisted as the government and the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) concluded two rounds of talks.

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Both sides will begin the third round of talks tonight or tomorrow morning, sources told ARY News, adding that TLP, on the other hand, instructed its leadership to remain alert.

Prior to the development, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said in his Twitter message that the government has clarified not to hold talks until the roads get cleared by the protestors and those responsible for policemen’s killings will not be handed over to the authorities.

He said that patriot people should dissociate themselves from the TLP protests and not become part of the terrorism against the state.

In another tweet, Fawad Chaudhry said that there is a difference between the protests of political parties and banned outfits. He added that Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and other parties had led political campaigns in the country.

He criticised that self-proclaimed intellectuals were terming the terrorism of a banned outfit as the political move.

Earlier, a new phase of talks between proscribed TLP and the government’s teams resumed after the earlier phase ended in failure.