TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad police took into custody 27 wedding guests on Sunday as they were going to the City Housing Society near M-4 interchange on the Sargodha Road.

Reports said those arrested were travelling in decorated cars to City Housing Society from where they were to be included in the wedding procession of one Waqar Ahmad to go to Aminpur Bangla, located near Aminpur interchange on the M-4.

Police considered them the PTI activists who were on the way to Islamabad in the guise of a wedding procession. After three hours, when the groom, Waqar, arrived there along with other guests and printed wedding invitation cards of his wedding, police released his 27 wedding guests and let their cars go.

On the other hand, when this report was filed, clashes were also still going on between police and PTI activists who were trying to take to the M-4 to proceed to Islamabad in different groups led by MNAs Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Dr Nisar Jat and MPA Latif Nazar Gujjar on the Sargodha Road.

Published in Dawn, November 25th, 2024