- PTI had asked for permission from the Minar-E-Pakistan rally.
- Lahore Hosting Cricket Match, Conference Int’L Sperpers.
- Thousands of security staff were deployed through Lahore.
Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) announced that it will not engage in any confrontation or trouble on February 8, marking the first anniversary of the general elections of last year.
PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja told Islamabad that the party would only hold a rally that Swabi, while the demonstrations would take place at the level of the Tehsil and Union council. He said there was no confrontation or chaos plan.
The former part in power had asked for permission to hold a rally in Minar-E-Pakistan on February 8, but the deputy commissioner rejected the request, refusing the approval of the meeting.
“The decision not to authorize the rally was made to maintain the situation of public order,” said the DC in a statement, also mentioning that the important events scheduled for Lahore on February 8, as a cricket match, An international conference of speakers and a spectacle of horse and livestock.
The government official said thousands of security staff had already been deployed due to these events.
Meanwhile, before the event at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, government representatives, including police staff, were prohibited from participating in political rallies and rallies.
Provincial police have also been responsible for refrain from assisting or facilitating such events.
KP Minister -Chief, Ali Amin Gandapur, announced a large -scale demonstration tomorrow on the occasion of the “Black Day”, promising to guarantee at all costs the release of the founder of PTI, Imran Khan.
He said that he had overcome all obstacles twice to reach D-CHOWK for the Liberation of the Chief and stressed that any future negotiation with the government would only take place on the directives of the founder of the PTI.
The former ruling party, following his negotiations with the government, announced rallies of protests against the polls in 2024 which, as well as other opposition parties, were again described for having been tainted with Truquage, causing an alleged theft of his mandate.
The party ended up by Imran Khan put an end to negotiations after having either a judicial commission to probe the riots of May 9 and November 2024 in accordance with its request charter.
The process of dialogue between the government led by PML-N and the PTI began at the end of December after months of increased political tensions.
The president of the PTI KP, Junaid Akbar, also warned against the agitation against the ruling coalition, affirming that the desire of the party to hold dialogue with the government was misinterpreted as its weakness.
The PTI, in recent months, has descended on the street on various occasions. Last year, the demonstrations and the party show in Islamabad led to a repression against party workers with leaders confronted with several cases.
