LAHORE: Following the impending by-elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has formed a 25-member committee to plan mass gatherings around Punjab.
The PTI and the Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), a six-party opposition alliance, would work together to host large-scale public gatherings shortly after the by-elections on April 21. Twelve of the province’s constituencies have candidates fielded by the party.
Rehana Dar, Mehrbano Qureshi, Zartaj Gull, Semabia Tahir, Kanwal Shozab, Hafiz Hamid Raza, Aun Abbas Bapi, Monis Elahi, Maj Tahir Sadiq, Sheikh Waqas Akram, Malik Amir Dogar, Salman Akram Raja, Zulfi Bukhari, Zain Qureshi, Muhammad Ahmad Chattha, Malik Ahmad Khan Bachhar, Moeen Qureshi, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Shaukat Basra, Shabbir Qureshi, Rai Hassan Nawaz, Mehr Abdul Sattar, Ejaz Minhas, Shadab Jafery, and Zubair Niazi make up the committee.Party officials said that Sher Afzal Marwat, Barrister Gohar Khan, Umer Ayub Khan, and party chairman Barrister Gohar Khan will all speak at the next protest gatherings.
PTI communication secretary Shaukat Basra, meantime, has harshly criticized the police for occupying party leader Muhammad Ahmad Chattha’s Wazirabad home. He claimed that Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz had given the order to unleash the brutality against PTI leaders and employees. He claimed that rather than helping the general public, Maryam Nawaz was concentrating on overseeing the by-election on April 21.
