- Says PML-N’s ‘hooliganism’ aims to prevent Raiwind march
ISLAMABAD, September 18: After much ambiguity, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday gave a final date for the Raiwind march on September 30.
The PTI chief was addressing the party’s workers convention in the capital where he said that the preparations for the Raiwind march would start from September 24.
He mocked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif saying, “whenever we try to question the prime minister over corruption he cuts ribbon of the same Motorway twice.”
He added that the PM thinks of us as fools. He said that his party would make important decisions for Pakistan.
The PTI chairman said that all the options for investigation over Panama Leaks have been exhausted, adding that the party is being blackmailed to remain silent.
Imran Khan said that when the party approaches courts ‘they say the petitions are frivolous’. He also alleged that the Election Commission and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz contested the general elections together in 2013. There were also incidents of indiscipline witnessed before the party chief’s address.
Earlier, PTI leaders were summoned by Imran Khan for a convention in the capital.
The party workers’ convention was attended by representatives from secondary parties as well as officials from the primary organisation.
Along with the final date for the Raiwind march, announcements regarding worker mobilisation and plans for the march were also made at the convention.
The PTI’s Raiwind march has received a lot of flak from the ruling PML-N. Workers and supporters of the PML-N have been holding demonstrations against the march on Raiwind, saying they would protect the area which also includes the premier’s residence.
PTI chairman Imran Khan while reacting to PML-N protest outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has said that the Nawaz-league wants to prevent the Raiwind march through its cheap tactics.
Workers and supporters of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Sunday held a protest demonstration outside the KP Assembly against a march on Raiwind announced by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), a few days ago. The protesters had said that Raiwind was their political centre and if anyone had any ill intentions towards it then they would face dire consequences.
They threatened of surrounding Bani Gala and Zaman Park (Imran Khan’s residences in Islamabad and Lahore, respectively), if the PTI went ahead with the march on Raiwind, where Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family live.
In his message on Twitter, Khan strongly reacted to the demonstration held outside KP Assembly.
“Shameful behaviour by PML-N goons trying to stop PTI from Raiwind march by hooliganism at KP Assembly,” Imran wrote in his tweet, adding that the ruling party holds a history of such behaviour.-Agencies
