Pakistani authorities have placed shipping containers on key roads and highways leading to the capital and suspended cellphone service in Islamabad in an attempt to prevent supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding a rally seeking his release.

Jaishankar will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government (SCO-CHG) meeting in Pakistan on October 15 and 16.

The highlights this week: Pakistan’s opposition sounds off against proposed amendments to the constitution, the U.S. State Department’s top Afghanistan official moves on without a replacement, and police crack down hard on protests in Bangladesh.