Sit-in protest by Tehreek-e-Labaik continued on 21st day in Faizabad on Sunday while the federal government has summoned army men to control the situation.
On Saturday, violent clashes between protestors and law enforcement personnel left seven dead and 417 injured. Countrywide protests erupted when police and paramilitary forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse Tehreek-e-Labaik protestors from Faizabad.
Police and paramilitary forces pulled back after their clearance operation turned deadly. The security forces were met by stubborn resistance by protesters who blocked roads and torched vehicles around the site of the sit-in.
An interior ministry order said the federal government had authorised the deployment of “sufficient troops” to “control law and order” in the capital until further notice. By daylight on Sunday there was no official military response and no sign of armoured vehicles or soldiers on the streets.
