Azadi March leaves for Multan after Maulan­a Fazl addres­ses protes­ters in Sukkur­ISLAMABAD: Personnel of Balochistan’s Levies Force resorted to aerial firing to thwart a possible attack on their check-post by activists of Ansarul Islam – a subordinate organisation of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) – in Duki district on Monday. “They used aerial firing in self-defence to disperse the angry mob,” they added. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government had banned Ansarul Islam ahead of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman-led Azadi March, being carried out the opposition parties to topple the ‘illegitimate’ government of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Ban on JUI-F’s Ansarul Islam infructuous: IHCThe federal government had said in a notification that it had “reasons to believe that Ansarul Islam is capable of functioning as a military organisation, in violation of the prohibition contained in Article 256 of the Constitution”. Addressing the marchers in the Sindh city, Maulana Fazl said, “This sea of protesters would wash away all the garbage from the parliament”.

Source: The Express Tribune October 28, 2019 14:15 UTC