GUJRANWALA: Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday directed his party’s office holders to ensure that thousands of the party’s workers gather in Islamabad during the long march.
While delegating the responsibilities to the district-level officer bearers, Khan said that the list of all PTI workers should be sent to him within two to three days.
The PTI chairman told the local leaders that 6,000 workers should come to the capital from Gujranwala, the same number from Sialkot and Gujrat, 5,000 from Mandi Bahauddin, and 4,000 each from Hafizabad and Narowal.
He also asked the leaders to draft a list of expenses that will be incurred during their stay in Islamabad, while directing them to begin funding for the anti-government march.
“The local leadership will be responsible to bear the expenses of the workers reaching Islamabad,” he told the officer bearers.
In a separate meeting with party leader Waseem Ramy, Khan said that he has directed every district to gather 6,000 people for the long march.
“I will decide from where the long march will begin and what will be its timing. I have kept details about the march very close to myself,” Khan added.
Moreover, while talking with senior journalists at a ceremony to celebrate his birthday in Lahore, Khan said that it did not concern him who is appointed as the next head of the country’s powerful military.
He further said that the master copy of the diplomatic cable – cypher – is safe in the foreign office.
The former prime minister, who has in recent weeks raised questions about who appoints the next chief of army staff (COAS), said it made no difference to him who is appointed as the next army chief.
On the mystery of the cypher, over which the government had on Wednesday formed a probe committee led by the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), said that the the master copy of the cypher is secure in the foreign office.
“Thank God, they have accepted the cypher [is real],” he stated.
Asked if he would appear before the high-powered probe committee set up by the government, he expressed his willingness to appear and answer questions.
“When the inquiry committee calls me, I will ask who is Donald Lu to ask for me to be removed,” he retorted.
He further reiterated that the coalition government has given its members a national reconciliation ordinance (NRO).
