The capital administration intended to block the “Red Zone” with 97 freight shipping containers and deploy a significant number of police troops due to concerns about a demonstration by Utility Stores Corporation (USC) employees in front of Parliament House on Monday (today).
The administration has refuted reports that the utilities stores were going to close in response to USC employees staging protests over anticipated store closures around the nation.
The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has decided to shut the Red Zone in order to keep demonstrators away from the parliament building on Monday as a result of the USC employees’ planned demonstration outside the parliament building.
According to sources, a thorough security strategy had been mapped out, with 13 locations designated where 97 shipping containers would be used to obstruct access to the Red Zone.
Ninety-seven cargo containers were there when the ICT police confiscated twenty-two of them.
The 97 containers will be arranged as follows: 10 will be positioned at the ISI roadblock (checkpoint), 8 at the Marriott Hotel, 26 at Express Chowk, 2 at the Election Commission, 8 at Nadra Chowk, 1 at the Fata picket, 8 at Serena Turn, 14 at the Serena traffic light on the Kashmir Highway, and 4 at the Bari Imam T-cross.
Similarly, two containers will be positioned at the Globe Chowk, two at the Serena checkpoint, two at the road next to Kohsar Block, and two at the Diplomatic Enclave entrance.
Staff at USC has threatened to start a broader protest if the government doesn’t change its mind.