ISLAMABAD: The Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Asad Umar has said that the biggest ever Tent City of country’s history will be set up in Rawalpindi by Friday morning.
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Taking to media here on Tuesday, he said the nation was ready to go out to seek its real freedom as ‘the captain’ [Imran Khan] remained steadfast despite being injured by bullets.
Asad Umar said that the Rawalpindi gathering would prove to be the biggest ever gathering in the history of Pakistan, as party leaders had been receiving phone calls from Gilgit-Baltistan to Karachi about preparations and arrangements for their event.
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He said in his opinion, there was no such place in Pindi that could accommodate such a large number of people, and that caravans would start arriving from different cities on Friday. Before this, he said, a regular tent city type settlement would be set up in Rawalpindi till Friday morning.
He further said that ‘new and real Pakistan’ had become a reality as people could no longer be suppressed by intimidation. He said Imran Khan had already announced that the next action plan would become public on November 26.
Elaborating about Rawalpindi gathering, the former federal minister said they had a meeting with Imran Khan yesterday during which consultation with the senior leadership took place. He said it had been decided that Imran Khan’s stage would be set up near Murree Road Faizabad.
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“Earlier there were reports of security threats which proved true,” he said, adding that even though Imran Khan’s life was in danger as everyone witnessed assassination attempt on his life, Khan was a brave man and believed that life and death were in hands of Allah.
Commenting on the current economic situation, Asad Umar said the current government had made the economy worse and the further decline was becoming a threat to national security. “I have never seen such bad (economic) conditions as they are now,” he added.
He said such conditions were not there even after international economic sanctions (on Pakistan) were imposed following nuclear explosions, adding that new elections were the only solution to get out of present crisis.
