{"id":31584,"date":"2017-11-17T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31584"},"modified":"2017-11-17T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:47:14","slug":"ahsan-urges-protesters-to-end-islamabad-sit-in-peacefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31584","title":{"rendered":"Ahsan urges protesters to end Islamabad sit-in peacefully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Nov. 17 (TNS):<\/strong> Amid preparation of crackdown against the protesters, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has\u00a0urged demonstrators blocking Faizabad Interchange to end sit-in, hours after Islamabad High Court (IHC)\u00a0ordered\u00a0the capital administration to clear the flyover by\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 2,000 protesters are demanding the resignation of Law Minister\u00a0Zahid Hamid\u00a0over\u00a0a hastily-abandoned amendment to the Prophethood Declaration Clause in the Electoral Reforms Bill 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge the protesters to end their blockade of Faizabad Interchange as their demands have already been met,\u201d Iqbal said while addressing a news conference on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Election (Amendment) Elections Bill 2017 has been passed both by the National Assembly and Senate, bringing the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat (finality of Prophethood) clause to its original form.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, he added, need to end their sit-in, otherwise the government will be compelled to implement the court orders.<\/p>\n<p>Ending the protest is particularly important\u00a0in view of the approaching Rabi-ul-Awwal, Iqbal said, adding that the authorities did not want a law and order situation to develop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo propagate a notion on the social media is if there is a campaign underway against the\u00a0legislation relating to the finality of Prophet-hood, is completely wrong,\u201d the interior minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister went on to add that blockade of any commuting point was against the basic teachings of Islam, saying anyone claiming to be a Muslim should never block another person\u2019s way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI value your sentiments but you have registered your protest and should now peacefully disperse,\u201d he told protesters. \u201cIf you want talks, you should do so but don\u2019t test patience of the residents of twin cities and end the sit-in before a clash becomes inevitable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Nov. 17 (TNS): Amid preparation of crackdown against the protesters, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has\u00a0urged demonstrators blocking Faizabad Interchange to end sit-in, hours after Islamabad High Court (IHC)\u00a0ordered\u00a0the capital administration to clear the flyover by\u00a0Saturday. Roughly 2,000 protesters are demanding the resignation of Law Minister\u00a0Zahid Hamid\u00a0over\u00a0a hastily-abandoned amendment to the Prophethood Declaration Clause in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-31584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31585,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31584\/revisions\/31585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}