‘Source of anxiety’: Pakistan cracks down before march to free Imran Khan

Islamabad, Pakistan — The motorway linking Pakistan’s capital with Peshawar, about 180km (110 miles) to the northwest, has been closed to all traffic until further notice, according to a police notification.So have the highway towards Dera Ismail Khan, the Hazara motorway and the Grand Trunk Road at Attock.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan’s family accuses gov’t of defying hospital orderlist 2 of 4‘Where’s the humanity?’: Imran Khan’s sons fear for jailed ex-Pakistan PMlist 3 of 4Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s sisters arrested before planned PTI marchlist 4 of 4Pakistan seals roads to Islamabad before protests for Imran Khan’s releaseend of listEach carries traffic between Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province governed by the party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, whose supporters plan to march on the capital on Sunday, September 27, demanding his release.The motorway from Lahore, about 375km (235 miles) to the southeast, remains open.Inside Islamabad, workers have welded shipping containers together and filled them with gravel and sand so they cannot be pushed aside. Several schools and colleges have been told to shut so p...