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- Pakistan’s interior ministry deployed 19,000 police and over 2,000 containers in Islamabad to deter a PTI march.
- Junior interior minister Talal Chaudhry said the measures are precautionary and normal city services remain operating.
- Government spokesperson Rana Ihsaan Afzal said the actions aim to counter PTI rhetoric despite possible consequences.
- Analysts Habib Akram and Ahmed Ijaz warned the government fears a hard-state response to price-rise and incarceration anger.