ISLAMABAD: The metro transport service will not be functional here on Oct 31, Thursday — the day Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s Azadi March will converge on the federal capital.
According to a tweet by Deputy Commissioner Islamabad Hamza Shafqaat, the metro services will remain non-operational in the city.
Earlier, the DC Islamabad had said that the services will remain open and there will not be any holiday in the federal capital.
The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl’s (JUI-F) Azadi March caravan is en route on Tuesday from Lahore towards Gujranwala, from where it will make its way to Islamabad.
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On Saturday, the Rahbar Committee and the government reached an agreement according to which the opposition agreed not to cross into the Red Zone.