Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) has announced an alternative strategy after refusing permission for his planned rally in Minar-E-Pakistan.
According to sources, the party has devised ‘Plan B’, which focuses on widespread protests across Punjab in case the rally location remains unavailable, Express News reported.
PTI management has decided not to hold the rally at any alternative place in Lahore.
Instead, they will organize protests in different districts in Punjab. Sources within the party revealed that instructions will be given to party members and leaders to hold demonstrations in their respective constituencies.
In Lahore, protests will be held in central places, including Liberty Chowk, Azadi Chowk and Mall Road.
PTI leaders have stated that the government, by refusing permission for the rally, is inadvertently making their protests more successful.
A few days ago, PTI 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.
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chapter President Junaid Akbar had warned of a nationwide campaign against the reigning coalition, quoting 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.
