ISLAMABAD: The situation is turning tense as each moment passes in the federal capital as the Government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf are pulling their muscles to confront each other on a pre-announced lockdown of the city on November 2. The ongoing hide and seek between the PTI’s supporters and the law enforcement agencies continued outside the residence of Imran Khan in Bani Gala on Monday. The Islamabad Police and Frontier Constabulary restricted the common people from entering the area and only allowed residents of Bani Gala to enter after they showed their proper identification. Meanwhile, several workers were detained including two women on Corang Road located just outside Bani Gala. The detained women were later released by the police. A female MPA of the PTI from Jhelum, Raheela Mehdi, along with six others was also detained. The detained women are PTI workers from Lahore and were protesting with others for not being allowed to proceed to Imran Khan’s residence. Those detained were moved to the secretariat police station. Earlier, police detained and later released PTI leaders Imran Ismail and Arif Alvi from the same spot. Although, the roads linking the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are mostly open but the government has placed containers near every junction between both the cities and the same would be closed at any time. The Federal Directorate of Education has decided that the government schools would remain open during the week whereas this decision has also been followed by the Private Schools Association. Besides the aforementioned decisions, it was observed that the attendance of school children was relatively low in schools on Monday. On the other side, the representative of several staff associations including the Federal Government Teaching Staff Association, the Federal Government Non-Teaching Staff Association and the Federation of Federal Government Employees staged a demonstration against the announced lock down of the PTI in front of the National Press Club. The protesters were of the view that the lock down and sit-in announced by the PTI would make life in the capital miserable. They resolved that all the educational institutions of Islamabad would remain open this week as the government announced full protection to the schools. While keeping possible the entry of a huge number of the PTI workers from KP province under the leadership of Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak, who is on the way to Islamabad, the administration has deployed a heavy contingent of police and the FC on several points at the Kashmir Highway.