A spokesman for Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) said that the Lahore police had stopped women from going to Rawalpindi, due to which they staged a sit-in on Multan Road.
Police misbehaved and forcibly removed women from buses and seized the vehicles at Chuhang police station, said JI Lahore western Emir Abdulaziz Abid, adding Punjab has become a police state.
Jamaat-e-Islami’s sit-in against increase in power tariff and IPPs agreements in Rawalpindi has entered the fourth day.
JI will hold talks with the government committee today as the party confirmed the release of all the arrested workers.
JI vice-emir Liaqat Baloch has condemned the misbehaviour of police with women and said that protest is constitutional and democratic right of every citizen. “The police should return buses and the government must avoid creating hurdles for women to participate in the Rawalpindi sit-in.”
The JI, he said, would prolong the sit-in if public demands are not met and the government kept trying fascist acts.
Jamaat-e-Islami has placed 10 demands before the government as the both sides completed the first round of talks on Sunday. The government subsequently released the arrested workers of the JI.
