ISLAMABAD, March 11: Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has said that private militia of any party will not be allowed to take law into hand.
Addressing a news conference on Friday, the interior minister regretted the incident that took place at the Parliament Lodges a day earlier.
He reminded that Ansar ul Islam is a banned outfit. He said, “Our police personnel got injured in the incident but no MNA was arrested, besides nobody was booked under anti-terrorism law.” He, however, made it clear that strict action will be taken if anybody tries to take law into hand.
He said it has now been decided to also deploy Rangers and FC personnel at the Parliament House, Parliament Lodges and the MNA hostels.
He said, “We are ready to provide more security to the opposition members.” He, however, said the opposition parties do not have support of 172 members for the success of its no-confidence motion in the National Assembly. He said the opposition now wants to sabotage the motion through some sort of rumpus. “Imran Khan will succeed in the vote of confidence with Allah the Almighty’s will,” the minister said.
The interior minister asked the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman to refrain from using the students of seminaries for political purposes.
Speaking about the incident, Rashid said that the Islamabad police did not knock any other door except for room no 401 – owned by JUI-F MNA Salahuddin Ayubi – where there were around 20 men.
The minister said that a bad time for the opposition is coming and therefore they want an incident to take place before the vote of no confidence. -TLTP
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