World News | Man Wielding Kalashnikov Arrested Outside Parliament House in Islamabad

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 13 (ANI): Pakistan's police on Thursday arrested a man for wielding Kalashnikov outside the Parliament House, local media reported.

According to ARY News, fear gripped the capital police when a man with a weapon was spotted outside the Parliament House at Constitution Avenue.

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The police said the gunman who entered the protest outside the Parliament Building was arrested and later identified as a guard of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) leader Mufti Kifayatullah, ARY News reported.

The Pakistani media further stated that the guard was brought to the police station for brandishing Kalashnikov in the highly restricted Islamabad's Red Zone.

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Last year, the police grasped an elderly man with weapons outside the Parliament building. The police recovered a gun and a dagger from him.

The gunman kept roaming outside the Parliament Building for more than 45 minutes, with a gun in one hand and a dagger in the other. The suspect was wielding his gun, pretending that he had put on a suicide jacket to blow, as per ARY News. (ANI)

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