Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday submitted a petition in Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) seeking permission to hold long march.
The PTI’s plea insisted the top court to order federal and Punjab governments to allow the PTI to hold a long march. Besides, no any arrests be made of the PTI activists and no hurdles be erected in the way of the PTI protests while the federal and Punjab governments be stopped from torture and use of force.
It is pertinent to mention here that the PTI chairman Imran Khan said that yesterday we will ask the SC to give ruling for a peaceful long march otherwise we will go with a complete preparation.
Imran Khan said that we are taking a ruling from the top court that do we have right of a peaceful protest or not? and on which basis they stopped us from the peaceful protest on May 25.
He said ” I am saying to Supreme Court of Pakistan to give us a ruling and inform us on which basis we had stopped last time for holding the peaceful protest while the government propagated the chaos”
تحریک انصاف نے لانگ مارچ سے متعلق سپریم کورٹ میں درخواست دائر کر دی- @Asad_Umar #امپورٹڈ_حکومت_نامنظور pic.twitter.com/vgEIoQGStm
— PTI (@PTIofficial) June 1, 2022
The PTI chief said that we have to give date for long march to our activists, supporters and the next time when we will arrive, will the SC allow the government for undemocratic move to stop us from a peaceful protest?
He said that if the SC gives us protection then our strategy will be different and if we didn’t get protection then our strategy will be other.
Imran Khan apprised that we didn’t have preparation last time on May 25, but now we will go with a complete preparations for the long march.
Former premier said that it is struggle (Jahad) for him adding that we will not recognize the ‘imported’ government at all.
