Following a recent altercation between police and political workers at the Parliament House, MNAs Hostel, and Parliament lodges, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed announced the deployment of Rangers and Frontier Corps (FC) members on Friday.
After a meeting, the interior minister told a press conference in Islamabad that the opposition lacked the 172 legislators needed to pass a no-confidence motion against the prime minister and that all they wanted was to go out.
He also assured National Assembly members security and claimed that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari were using JUI-F president Maulana Fazlur Rehman to achieve their goals.
In October of this year, he claimed, the JUI-private F’s militia “Ansarul Islam” was prohibited.
“Last night, 50 members of this private militia were permitted to the Parliament lodges, where the legislators’ families reside. We spent five hours negotiating with them. They also harmed five police officers while torturing them,” he said.
“As long as I am the interior minister, those who take the law into their own hands will be crushed.” Regardless of how powerful a leader is. Even if a party leader is proved to be complicit in a plot, he will face consequences. “No one would be spared who comes to Islamabad dressed in militia garb,” the interior minister promised.
“Senator Kamran Murtaza used very offensive language against police,” Sheikh Rasheed deplored.
“No-confidence motion is a democratic right of the opposition, but they want to create chaos in Islamabad before the no-confidence motion,” blamed the interior minister.
“Cases of terrorism will be registered against them if they do not mend their ways,” he warned.
“It is good that the army is neutral. The army will always be with democracy,” he stated.
