ISLAMABAD: Police on Thursday conducted an operation in the parliament lodges hours after Ansar-ul-Islam of the Jamiat Ulema-e-lslam (JUI-F) set up camp inside the Parliament Lodges ahead of the no-confidence motion and arrested Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) MNA Salahuddin Ayubi and nine others.

The operation was launched hours after Ansar-ul-Islam, of the Jamiat Ulema-e-lslam (JUI-F) set up camp inside the Parliament Lodges. The group said that security will be implemented on the instructions of JUI-f chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, saying they were there to protect opposition MNAs ahead of the assembly’s session for the no-confidence motion.

Islamabad Inspector General of Police Muhammad Ahsan Younus took notice of the group’s presence inside the lodges. According to a tweet posted from their official account, he suspended the police officials in charge at D-Chowk under whose watch the Ansarul Islam workers had entered the lodges, Subsequently, he took charge of the operation.