Faizabad clash: Roads remain blocked in various parts of Lahore
The violent clashes in Islamabad spurred protests in Lahore and other cities.
LAHORE (Dunya News / AFP) – In protest against crackdown on Faizabad sit-in protestors in Islamabad, religious parties’ agitated supporters have blocked roads in Lahore at nineteen various points including Mall Road, Shahdara Morr, Babu Sabu, Amamia Colony railway crossing, Thokar Niaz Baig, Faisal Chowk and Ichra.
Protestors have also staged sit-in outside Punjab Assembly at Charing Cross while Rangers personnel have also been deployed at the scene to protect the provincial assembly building.
Roads at Paka Mail and Thokar Terminal have been blocked with containers, causing problems for the motorists.
Police and paramilitary forces pulled back from an operation near Faizabad interchange to break up a huge sit-in that had paralysed Islamabad for weeks after their clearance operation on Saturday turned deadly.
Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the demonstrators but were met by stubborn resistance by protesters who blocked roads and torched vehicles around the site of the sit-in.
An interior ministry order said the federal government had authorised the deployment of "sufficient troops" to "control law and order" in the capital until further notice.
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By daylight on Sunday there was no official military response and no sign of armoured vehicles or soldiers on the streets. Private television broadcasts remained blocked and social media sites were restricted.
Hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators are believed to be still occupying roads and intersections connecting Islamabad with neighbouring Rawalpindi.
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