Islamabad administration conducted Faizabad operation on high court’s order: Ahsan Iqbal

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister, Ahsan Iqbal has claimed that the operation against the Faizabad protestors was conducted by Islamabad administration on the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

Ahsan Iqbal said this while talking to private news channel in an interview. Iqbal said that he did not give the orders of conducted the operation as it was headed by the Islamabad administration and the inspector general of Islamabad police on the orders of IHC. He added that the court issued contempt of court notice to me for creating hurdles in initiating crackdown against these protestors.

Iqbal added that he was always in favor of resolving the issue peacefully.