ISLAMABAD: The district administration in Islamabad has imposed Section-144 in the federal capital on Thursday, a week before Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s ‘Islamabad lockdown’ plan.

The decision to impose a ban on public gatherings for 60 days was taken by the Deputy Commissioner Islamabad. A notification has also been issued in this regard.

‘Under the law, gathering of five or more than five people will not be allowed in the Islamabad district for two months,’ read the notification.

Earlier, expressing his surprise on recent Quetta attack, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that why such incidents take place whenever his party move ahead to expose the government.

Talking to media on Monday, he said that his party will not postpone the decision of Islamabad lockdown.

He also declared Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ‘the biggest security risk’ in the wake of deadly attack on Quetta’s police training academy, saying that the government was now bent-on hiding and protecting the PM and his corruption.

PTI chief said that Balochistan government was saying repeatedly that India was destabilizing the province and their PM Modi also tarnished Pakistan’s image but our prime minister didn’t name India at international forums to expose their brutality in held Kashmir.

Khan said terrorism and corruption in the country were running parallel. He insisted that his party’s planned ‘lockdown’ of Islamabad would go ahead in any case.

PTI has planned siege of Islamabad on Nov 2, where the party has threatened to “lock down” the capital. The PTI has vowed not to let the government function if the prime minister does not give himself up for accountability for the revelations made about his family’s offshore wealth in the Panama Papers.

In an unexpected development on Monday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr. Tahirul Qadri accepted PTI’s request to join the planned showdown.