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Pakistani authorities on Friday blocked major routes into the capital and suspended mobile internet services in Islamabad and Rawalpindi to prevent a protest march by the hardline group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).

The Ministry of Interior directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to suspend mobile internet services “for an indefinite period” from midnight, as per a letter approved by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, as per media reports

Police officials confirmed that internal and external routes to the city were blocked using shipping containers. “The city’s routes and mobile internet services have been closed in view of the protest march,” police sources.

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