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Three detained for 'anti-state' protest

Our Correspondent August 16, 2025 Less than a minute read

RAWALPINDI:

Police have launched a crackdown on 43 individuals accused of blocking a road and chanting anti-state slogans during Independence Day celebrations, arresting three and registering a case against all of them.

Chaklala police booked three identified suspects along with 40 unidentified persons under charges of disturbing public order, blocking a public road and unlawfully obstructing movement.

The FIR, filed by Sub-Inspector Nadeem Ahmed without mentioning any political party, stated that officers were patrolling in Chaklala Scheme-III when they encountered the protesters blocking a road near the Scheme-III bazaar.

The suspects were allegedly chanting slogans against the state and its institutions.

COMMENTS (2)

Colonel Iyaz R. | 3 months ago | Reply This is rather shameful how those institutions described in above post are USING THE STATE for the survival of their luxury and hindering the growth and prosperity of motherland.

Imran Sikander | 3 months ago | Reply If people have no freedom to express themselves then this is not democracy or even be called an independent state. Such a state could only exist for safeguarding some sort of institution but not its public.

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