Dawood Ahmed, Muhammad Zeeshan:
LAHORE, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan said no one can stand against the flood of people. The former premier expressed these views while addressing the participants of the long march in Lahore.
The PTI launched a long march from Liberty Chowk Lahore towards Islamabad to mount pressure on the government to hold early general elections. PTI, the country’s former ruling party called it Haqeeqi Azadi March. The party insists it will not enter the Red Zone and will stay confined to the designated area; but what will that achieve? There are no answers.
Imran Khan termed the press conference addressed by the Director-General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) more political than what he called Sheikh Rashid.
Speaking to cheering crowds at Liberty Chowk on Friday afternoon, Imran Khan said that, unlike Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, he was “not a runaway that would either sit quietly here or criticize the military in London”.
“I am not going to leave this country. I will live and die in this country,” added the PTI chief.
“I am not going to leave this country. I will live and die in this country,” added the PTI chief.
“I want to see a Pakistan that is free and to have a free country you need a powerful military,” he added, “if your military is weakened then the country loses its freedom”.
“So DG ISI sir when we criticize you we do constructive criticism, we do it for your own good,” said Imran as he noted that “we do not wish to hurt our country”.
I could even answer you back. But, I do not want that the institutions of the country are weakened”.
“And I repeat myself,” he continued, “I could say a lot more, I could even answer you back. But, I do not want that the institutions of the country are weakened”.
The PTI chief also said that the march will remain confined to the designated areas that “they have allowed us in Islamabad”.
PTI supporters from across the country including Balochistan, Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa started joining the march to mount pressure on the Pakistan Muslim League (N) government.
