RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has declared that following Eid-ul-Fitr, it will begin a nationwide campaign against purported election tampering. The movement will originate in Balochistan.
Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi on Thursday, party leader Asad Qaiser announced that the protest movement’s first rally would take place in Pishin district and that a meeting to discuss the logistics of the rally would take place on April 12 in Quetta at the home of Balochistan National Party Chairman Akhtar Mengal. Qaiser had met with PTI founder Imran Khan on Thursday in Adiala jail.
Shibli Faraz, a former minister of communication and leader of the PTI, claimed that the PTI had been given a complete mandate that had been stolen. Still, he insisted, they had to take their legal battle to the next level.
“We have to distinguish between those in possession of Form 45 and Form 47.”
He continued by saying that there was a brain drain and that foreign investment had stopped entering the nation.
The PTI leader brought up the postponement of the Senate elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and questioned if the KP was being punished for granting a party a hefty mandate.
He declared that his party wanted Pakistan’s laws and constitution to take precedence. He stressed that they would not allow Pakistan to turn into a banana republic and that, given the current circumstances, the chief justice’s position was vital.
