Following the fiasco at the Parliament lodges, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said that no one would be allowed to take law into their hands.
While rejecting claims of opposition parties about their arrest at a press conference, he said only 19 members of the militia had been taken into custody.
The minister accused the opposition parties to have created the ‘drama’ to get political mileage as they knew that their no-trust move against Prime Minister Imran Khan was destined to fail.
Sheikh Rasheed warned of strict action if anybody tried to take the law into their own hand.
“No one is allowed to have a private militia as this is not the Banana Republic, and the law will definitely take its course against the violators,” he said.
The interior minister assured that the parliamentarians of all political parties of foolproof security during their stay in the federal capital.
Earlier, talking to a private news channel, Sheikh Rasheed said the Ansarul Islam’s members were hiding inside the Parliament Lodges.
The police tried to resolve the matter peacefully, but they attacked the personnel, he added.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, in a tweet, viewed the incident as a “planned” conspiracy on the part of the JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman.
“The Nazim of JUI’s armed militia is making an announcement that one of its groups had reached Islamabad,” he said while sharing a video message from the head of Ansarul Islam for the militia’s members.
Following the arrests, JUI-F Chief Fazl arrived at the Parliament Lodges and called upon his party workers to come to the streets.
