PTI leaders staged a rally on the outskirts of Islamabad on Sunday, demanding the release of their founder, Imran Khan, while criticizing the government for marginalizing PTI as police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
Addressing the rally, PTI leader and KP chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur said that they will not allow the military trial of Imran Khan. He claimed all cases against PTI founder has been ended. He warned that “if the government did not release Imran Khan in two weeks, then they will take him out from Adiala Jail”. He announced that PTI will hold its next rally in Lahore no matter they get NOC or not.
KP chief Minister said May 9 was lame excuse they wanted to target Imran Khan. He said he will share the details with the masses in Lahore rally. He said PTI and Pathan will come to Lahore with “band bajay and barati” (with full preparation).
Gandapur also flayed media and labeled it corrupt.
KP CM claimed the last PTI rally was adjourned by Imran Khan on their special requests. He pledged that “PTI will fight and die for Imran Khan. We will pray for the founding chairman and for Pakistan. The founding chairman is messiah for Pakistan”.
KP Chief Minister also paid tribute to the workers who have come from all over the country. He said PTI founder has always talked about Pakistan. The chairman has always spoken of masses”.
He said Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz are given NRO while Imran Khan wins by sitting in jail. He demanded of the apex court to follow the constitution. He said, “Officials of all institutions, listen, you have taken the oath of the constitution”.
The rally began with party leader Hammad Azhar addressing the crowd, stating that supporters had gathered today to establish the rule of law and the supremacy of the Constitution in the country.
He added that no obstacle would deter them today.
Speaking during the rally, PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan demanded Imran’s immediate release and lamented how the party’s leaders were being sidelined by the government. “I never thought there would be a day that Imran Khan, who formed our party to save Pakistan, would be put in jail,” Ali Muhammad said.
PTIMNA Sher Afzal Khan Marwat said: “We have one message for the Pakhtuns, that we will go to Punjab within a week, and Ali Ami Gandapur will tell you the date. “These people, who erected the containers, whose police charged you with batons, I want them to listen [that] we are coming to Lahore,” Marwat said.
During her speech, PTI member Aliya Hamza Malik questioned whether Pakistanis wanted true freedom and their rights or wished to continue witnessing enforced disappearances in the country.