Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Monday stopped in need of saying the date for the proposed mega rally to the federal capital, as he gave the Shehbaz Sharif-led authorities some extra time to announce snap polls and the dissolution of the National Assembly.
Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), who made requires the ‘Haqeeqi Azadi March’ (actual freedom march) earlier this month, made this assertion whereas addressing a press convention right here after his social gathering swept the essential by-elections held on Sunday.
“I am giving them time…and will announce a long march any time, which will definitely be held in October. This protest will be very different and nobody will be able to control the masses once they are on roads,” Khan mentioned.
Khan’s social gathering received six out of eight National Assembly seats and two out of three provincial meeting seats in Punjab province, in one other jolt to the Sharif authorities.
The fundamental contest was between Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Khan’s PTI.
Eight seats of the National Assembly (NA) and three of the Punjab provincial meeting fell vacant after the PTI lawmakers resigned following the toppling of Khan’s authorities in April.
Khan, who contested seven National Assembly seats within the essential by-elections held on Sunday, emerged victorious in six constituencies, constructing ahead momentum in his drive to push the six-month-old PML-N-led authorities into saying an early normal election.
The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was defeated on a seat in Karachi by a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which managed to clinch two National Assembly seats — Multan and Karachi — which have been bagged by the PTI within the 2018 normal elections.
This can be Khan’s second main rally, after the primary one, often called the “Azadi Rally,” which he had known as on May 25, was abruptly known as off on the final minute after his social gathering employees arrived on the federal capital.
While exuding satisfaction over the outcomes of the by-elections, the previous premier alleged rigging in Karachi’s constituency and demanded the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to carry re-election.
Khan accused his political rival and PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif of trying to delay elections, saying “he (Sharif) is afraid to go to polls because of the PTI’s constantly growing popularity.” During Monday’s press convention, Khan got here down closely on the “custodial torture” inflicted on his social gathering’s senator Azam Swati for tweeting towards the Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
“He (Swati) was beaten in front of his grandchildren and then was taken to police station where law enforcers handed his custody to agencies, who then subjected him to more torture,” Khan alleged.
“I felt so ashamed that we humiliated our people this way,” he added.
Khan will use his victory to press for early elections, which had been his fundamental demand since his removing from workplace, however he might not succeed to get snap polls because the coalition authorities remains to be sturdy sufficient to withstand the strain.
Since his ouster from energy by a no-confidence vote, Khan has been campaigning for snap polls and commonly holding rallies.
It helped him to win 15 out of 20 seats of the Punjab meeting in July when by-elections have been held.
