Overview

• Media reports say the Interior Ministry directed the telecom regulator to suspend mobile internet in Islamabad and Rawalpindi indefinitely from midnight via a letter approved by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi.
• Police confirmed major routes were barricaded with shipping containers and the Red Zone was sealed, with restricted access for authorised personnel via Margalla Road.
• Rawalpindi imposed Section 144 through October 11 to prohibit gatherings, ordered hotels along Murree Road vacated, and deployed riot police at key entry points.
• Overnight raids and confrontations in Lahore resulted in injuries, with TLP claiming two deaths and 50 wounded, while police acknowledged one death and reported injuries to protesters and officers.
• Officials reported 117 TLP workers detained in Rawalpindi, anti-terrorism cases filed against hundreds including party chief Saad Rizvi, and the interior minister alleging seizures of spiked sticks, chemicals and protective gear.