ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced holding another protest at the federal capital’s D-Chowk on October 15, the same day that a crucial regional moot is scheduled to begin. This announcement comes as foreign dignitaries are getting ready to arrive in Islamabad for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit.
The declaration was made just one week after the beleaguered opposition party fought with police officers in an attempt to hold an anti-government demonstration in D-Chowk, putting the entire federal capital under a two-day curfew.
In response to the government’s plans to propose constitutional revisions, the PTI had begun a series of rallies calling for the “independence of the judiciary” and the release of its founder, Imran Khan, who had been detained for more than a year at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
