PHC restrains JUI-F from blocking roads.

PESHAWAR -- The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday restrained the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) from blocking roads, media reported.

A bench of the high court gave this restraining order on a petition against the party's agitation drive to press the government into meeting their demands, which also included Prime Minister Imran Khan's resignation.

After a preliminary hearing, the bench restrained the JUI-F from blocking major arteries.

As part of its Plan B, the JUI-F has staged sit-ins at various key points across the country.

While addressing the Azadi March participants in Islamabad earlier this week, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had announced to end Islamabad sit-in said to expand protests across the country according to his party's Plan B for protest.

He had appealed workers of JUI-F to come on streets and record a protest as Plan-B of the party.

The party workers had on Thursday blocked the Hub River road in Karachi for vehicular traffic. The disruption of traffic by the JUI-F workers has...

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