KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has rescheduled its public rally in Karachi that was scheduled to take place on April 17.
As per the new schedule, PTI Chairman Imran Khan will address the public meeting a day earlier on Saturday, April 16, at Mazar-e-Quaid ground.
The party had announced to hold a public meeting in Karachi as part of a countrywide protest campaign against the removal of its government, In a Twitter post, PTI leader Asad Umar asked Karachiites to “get ready” to welcome former prime minister Imran Khan. “Pakistan will see how Karachi stands with its leader for a Khuddar Pakistan,” he added.
Imran Khan has decided to launch a public campaign by holding protests in different cities of the country. He said that he will hold a rally in Peshawar on Wednesday and demand immediate elections.
In a message on Twitter, Imran Khan wrote, “We are calling for immediate elections, because that is the only way forward. Let the people decide who will be the minister through fair and free elections.”
He added that we are demanding immediate elections as that is the only way forward – to let the people decide, through fair and free elections, whom they want as their prime minister.
In another tweet, he wrote, “I will hold a rally in Peshawar after Isha, this will be my first rally after the government was removed by foreign conspiracy, I want all our people to come to the rally, Pakistan was created as an independent, sovereign state, not a puppet of external powers.”
It may be recalled that the no-confidence motion filed in the National Assembly against Imran Khan was successful after which Shehbaz Sharif has been sworn in as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan.
