ISLAMABAD: The police on Sunday arrested more than 100 supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who entered Islamabad days before a planned protest shutdown of the capital.
“About 450 people entered Islamabad today,” Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told a press conference. “Police intercepted them but most of them ran away, many leaving their cars behind.” Officers seized seven Kalashnikov rifles, 21 rifle magazines, tear gas shells and seven bulletproof jackets, the minister said.
He said the PTI planned to occupy the Pakistan Secretariat. He said that on Saturday night, some 1,200 PTI activists tried to drive in a convoy to Islamabad from Peshawar. When police stopped them on the motorway, they beat up officers but had to retreat when reinforcements arrived, he claimed.
