Hundreds of lawyers and opponents of the government were behind bars last night after the authorities in Pakistan launched a widespread crackdown on the eve of a protest march.
All major roads into the capital were blocked while numerous activists and politicians – the former cricketer Imran Khan among them – went into hiding.
In a move compared to the authoritarian tactics used by the former president Pervez Musharraf, police carried out pre-dawn raids across Punjab province and used British colonial-era legislation to impose a ban on any gatherings of more than four people.
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