Federal ministers strongly reacted to the “do-or-die” protest in Islamabad by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, calling it “illegal and unnecessary” and asserting that the majority of opposition party members and leaders are “courting their arrest to avoid their participation in the so-called final call.”
Information Minister Ataullah Tarar stated during his Sunday tour of various parts of Islamabad that the majority of the top and lower tier leaders of the former ruling party were willingly turning themselves in to the police for arrest in order to avoid taking part in the protest in Islamabad, according to information he received from Punjab and Islamabad.
“One thing is pretty clear that the PTI’s leadership does not want a release of their leader [Imran Khan] from the jail,” he stated.
