Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) decided to hold a public rally in Minar-E-Pakistan on February 8, for which a request was submitted to the administration of Lahore.
According to Express News, PTI has decided to hold an electric exhibition at the Greater Iqbal Park.
The party appointed chief organizer Aliya Hamza to supervise the event, and she submitted a written request to the deputy commissioner of Lahore requesting the approval of the rally.
The request underlines that PTI wishes to organize the rally at the Greater Iqbal Park Ground and that a CNO (without certificate of objection) is requested from the authorities.
The rally organizing committee includes Aliya Hamza, oLeader of the Position at the Assembly of Punjab, Malik Ahmad Khan Bhachar, and Ali Ijaz Butt.
PTI sources have declared that if the authorization is not granted, the party plans to organize a national demonstration in response.
Yesterday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the president of the Junaid Akbar section, warned against a national campaign against the power coalition, citing the lack of engagement of the government to resolve political tensions through dialogue.
Addressing a local television news channel, Akbar said that the opposition’s desire to negotiate was wrongly interpreted as a sign of weakness. His remarks occurred after PTI jumped the fourth round of interviews with the coalition government led by the Muslim League of Pakistan (PML-N) on Tuesday on Tuesday, effectively blocking the negotiation process.
PTI and the power alliance launched talks in December from last year to reduce political temperature in the country.
However, the dialogue process derailed while PTI accused the government of not having trained judicial commissions to investigate on May 9, 2023, the demonstrations and the repression of PTI demonstrators in Islamabad on November 26, 2024.
Akbar, who was recently elected president of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), admitted that if PTI was aimed at operating the negotiations, the current trajectory suggested a dead end.
He confirmed PTI’s intention to abandon negotiations in favor of street demonstrations. “Yes, certainly,” he said when asked if the party was now looking for solutions in the streets.
He announced a series of protest plans, including district demonstrations on February 8 against the alleged electoral rigging and a large-scale demonstration at the D-CHOWK of Islamabad.
The head of the PTI stressed that this time, the party would not engage in negotiations during its street demonstrations.
By referring to significant changes within PTI, he revealed that the “homeopathic leadership” of the party would be replaced by rigids after a reorganization scheduled for May.
He also announced his intention to reorganize the provincial cabinet, with two new members who should join the team of chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur.
