{"id":51175,"date":"2024-10-05T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=51175"},"modified":"2024-10-05T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T05:47:46","slug":"federal-govt-spent-rs27m-to-restrict-pti-protesters-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-govt-spent-rs27m-to-restrict-pti-protesters-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal govt spent Rs27m to restrict PTI protesters in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government spent Rs27 million and deployed 6,000 personnel to restrict Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/aleem-khan-among-30-arrested-as-police-tear-gas-pti-protestors-in-d-chowk\/\">supporters<\/a> as they planned a mass demonstration at D-Chowk.<\/p>\n<p>According to a local publication, citing police officials, 600 containers were used to block 27 points in the federal capital which cost Rs24 million. The average rent of a container is Rs40,000 per day, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, 60 vehicles were arranged to transport police personnel to 48 different spots around the city, which were rented for Rs1.2 million as the per day rent of a vehicle costs Rs20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the publication reported that lunch and dinner were arranged for the force of 6,000 personnel, adding that the total cost for two-time meals for the force was calculated at Rs2.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier Constabulary and Rangers are also accompanying police contingent and have been equipped with anti-riot gear, including teargas shells, handcuffs, and prison vehicles, were deployed at these points.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-riot gear, including teargas shells used at five different places &#8211; China Chowk, Express Chowk, Fazal-i-Haq Road, Expressway, and Chongi No 26 &#8211; on Friday to disperse protestors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government spent Rs27 million and deployed 6,000 personnel to restrict Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters as they planned a mass demonstration at D-Chowk. According to a local publication, citing police officials, 600 containers were used to block 27 points in the federal capital which cost Rs24 million. The average rent of a container [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":51176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7261,110],"class_list":["post-51175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pti-protest","tag-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51177,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51175\/revisions\/51177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}