Govt warns Azadi marchers against crossing 'red lines\.

ISLAMABAD -- The federal government on Thursday reminded the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) protesters that Islamabad, besides being the seat of the government, was also home to a large community of expatriates and residents whose security was the responsibility of the state. Holding a list of 7,000 names of people who she claimed 'connect Pakistan to the world', Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Communication Firdous Ashiq Awan said that after the 2008 Marriott Hotel bombing, the United Nations had declared Islamabad to be a 'non-family station'.

'From 2008, after a continuous struggle, the incumbent government was finally able to reverse that decision thanks to the Prime Minister's international image building efforts,' she noted, sitting next to Interior Minister Brigadier (r) Ijaz Shah. 'We are very familiar with political muscle flexing, protest we ourselves are political players. We have no worries about answering political challenges. But when there is unrest in the capital [...] the Pakistani diaspora which is...

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