By Asim Hussain
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) workers Tuesday continued their protest in different areas of Rawalpindi against the assassination attempt on their party chairman Imran Khan.
They blocked the routes by setting ablaze tyres and bushes and staging sit-ins. The twin city visibly came to a halt with sporadic traffic jams on main and connecting roads.
The protesters simultaneously blocked the traffic headed to Faizabad from Murree Road and from the IJP Road to Islamabad. PTI activists also blocked the road leading to Islamabad International Airport by burning tyres.
The twin city visibly came to a halt with sporadic traffic jams on main and connecting roads.
The residents of Dhok Kashmirian, Asghar Mall Road, Dhok Paracha, Dhok Elahi Bakhsh, Raja Bazar, and other suburbs are facing difficulties in commuting.
Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi police have warned PTI protesters that it would register cases against them if they disrupted law and order and did not protest ‘peacefully’. The masses are also requested to report any suspicious activities to the police.
It was worth mentioned here that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protesters on Monday staged extraordinarily violent protests in and around Rawalpindi, cutting-off twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad from Motorway and choked all sorts of traffic to rest of the country.
The PTI protesters’ continued their protest demonstrations in different mareas of Rawalpindi city in protest against the assassination attempt on their party Chairman Imran Khan. Multiple roads are blocked in Islamabad and Rawalpindi as the PTI continues to stage protests in the twin cities.
PTI’s Wasiq Abbasi, who is also the Punjab Assembly deputy speaker, said while speaking to the media that the party’s “peaceful” protests were continuing on Tuesday.
“We are staging a protest at Motorway Chowk in Islamabad,” he said, demanding that the first information report of the attack on Imran Khan be registered in line with the “merit”.
“We will continue the protest until our demands are met,” he added.
