Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) has decided to hold a public rally in Minar-E-Pakistan on February 8, as a request was made to the Lahore administration.
According to Express News, PTI has decided to hold a power show in the Greater Iqbal Park.
The party has appointed Chief Organizer Aliya Hamza to oversee the event, and she has submitted a written request to the Deputy Commissioner of Lahore seeking approval for the rally.
The request outlines that PTI wants to keep the rally on the Greater Iqbal Park Ground and a NOC (no objection is sought) from the authorities.
The Organizational Committee for the Rally includes Aliya Hamza, islandPosition leader in the Punjab assembly Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar and Ali Ijaz Butt.
PTI sources have stated that if no permission is given, the party plans to arrange a nationwide protest in response.
Yesterday, Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chapter President Junaid Akbar has warned of a nationwide campaign against the reigning coalition, referring to the government’s lack of obligation to resolve political tensions through dialogue.
In a speech with a local TV news channel, Akbar said the opposition’s willingness to negotiate was wrongly interpreted as a sign of weakness. His remarks came after PTI jumped over the fourth round of negotiations with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-LED coalition government earlier on Tuesday, which effectively stopped the negotiation process.
PTI and the ruling alliance began conversations last December to lower the political temperature in the country.
However, the dialogue process derived when PTI accused the government of not forming legal commissions of investigating May 9, 2023, protests and crashes on PTI protests in Islamabad on November 26, 2024.
Akbar, who was recently elected to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman, who is not set up, admitted that although PTI aimed to negotiate, the current lane suggested a stalemate.
He confirmed the PTI’s intention to give up the negotiations in favor of street protests. “Yes, certainly,” he said, when asked if the party would now seek solutions to the streets.
He announced a series of protest plans, including demonstrations at the district level on February 8 against alleged voting rigs and a large-scale protest on Islamabad’s D-Chowk.
The PTI leader emphasized that this time the party would not participate in negotiations under its street protests.
He suggested that significant changes within PTI revealed that the party’s “homeopathic leadership” would be replaced by hardliners after a reorganization planned for May.
He also announced plans to restore the provincial cabinet, where two new members are expected to join Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s team.
