Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Sensing the failure of the civil administration of Rawalpindi in dealing with PTI’s protests on October 4, 2024, the provincial government of Punjab has deployed the Pakistan Army to handle law and order in the province. The announcement was linked to the apparent failure of civilian law enforcement agencies and the civil administration of Punjab to handle the situation on October 4, 2024, when PTI followers managed to engage the police and reach near D-Chowk Islamabad Islamabad that is in the Red Zone of capital. All roads leading to Islamabad were sealed with cargo containers and cell phone service was suspended in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. In normal political circumstances, calling the Army under Article 245 is not an advisable decision but in sensitive circumstances owning to SCO Summit, the decision looks wise and timely. Article 245 of the Constitution of Pakistan says: The Armed Forces shall, under the directions of the Federal Government, defend Pakistan against external aggression…

Islamabad, Pakistan: Over-charged few hundred PTI followers made hell for the Punjab Police as well as for Islamabad Police when they kept civilian law enforcement agencies busy in hide and seek at Faizabad intersection, Sohan, Muree Road and around D-Chowk on Friday and they came into action after Friday prayers. The government’s intelligence failed as police had been waiting for them since early morning and thought they would have gathered at the announced venue of Red Zone in Islamabad before Friday’s Prayers. In Rawalpindi, this scribe did not find civil administration officers like the Assistant Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi in action as they might have avoided putting them in the mess. This scribe covered the situation at Murree Road, Faizabad, Committee Chowk, and Dhok Kala Khan and found not a single important officer of district management. Similar inputs came from the Murree district and the Attock district. Yes, police were seen in groups of five to 10 persons but the true administrative…

Islamabad, Pakistan: Despite digging trenches on the Motorway at Haro River bridge, sealing 26 entry points of Islamabad, sealing all entry points of Rawalpindi, and placing walls of cargo containers, neither the Islamabad Police nor Rawalpindi Islamabad administration could stop PTI’s protestors from reaching around the D-Chowk, the venue that was announced by CM Amin Ali Gandapur. Gandapur reached Islamabad from Swabi in 48 hours with a procession of PTI followers for protesting at the D-Chowk Red Zone area although his procession faced a stiff response from the police. This is a lesson to political forces that governance is merely a dream if the governments are not popular among the masses and such governments have to take the support of the military under Article 245 to call the Army to manage the law and order situation. Some journalists sitting in the National Press Club were of the view today’s event was a message to the State that if the ‘nip in the bud’ formula is not followed then the unruly mob can…

More than 100 PTI activists arrested have been released by area magistrates and discharged from the FIRs filed against them.

Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday halted arrest of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ali Amin Gandapur in all the cases registered against him till October 25. The CM had filed an application in the court through his counsel Alam Khan Advocate expressing a fear of arrest by Islamabad and Rawalpindi police and requested PHC to […]