-Imran Khan tells workers to restart March on Islamabad from Wazirabad
-Vows to hold address on daily basis virtually until rally is reached Rawalpindi in 10-15 days
-Urges transparent investigation into shooting incident
-Discharged from Shaukat Khanum Hospital
LAHORE: PTI Chief and Former Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his party would be resuming its Long March to Islamabad on Tuesday, November 8, and he will join the protestors from Rawalpindi.
“We will start the march from Tuesday. I will hold an address daily,” Khan said while speaking at the hospital. He added that he would lead the march from Rawalpindi when it arrives in 10-15 days.
Khan called on his supporters to reach Rawalpindi as an announcement of the long march’s resumption, saying that the reason the Pakistani nation is treated as beggars is not because of the lack of resources but due to a lack of justice.
“It is time to realise Haqeeqi Azadi. All of you should come and reach Rawalpindi when I join the party and lead [the march.”
Addressing a press conference from the hospital, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that “slave nations cannot rise”.
“My first point is what will the judicial commission do when the three people I named are the ones who will head the investigation,” said Khan. He added that he sought the interior minister, prime minister and a military official’s resignation as he wants “trans-parent investigations because there is an entire pattern”.
“First, video surfaces that I’m committing blasphemy, it should be probed in the investi-gations. The video is then highlighted by a journalist affiliated with a political party. Af-ter this, a press conference is held by Maryam Safdar, Marriyum Aurangzeb and Javed Latif and they say that I committed blasphemy,” said the PTI chief. The PTI chief said that he was seeking an FIR against the three people he named as he was aware that they wanted to murder him just like Salman Taseer. The former prime minister questioned how did it happen that the gunman’s interview was leaked despite PTI having a government in Punjab.
“We ask the police and they say they were under pressure, when we ask the IG, he says it was hacked,” said Khan. He also demanded that a judicial commission be formed to probe Arshad Sharif’s murder.
Imran Khan, after being discharged from the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore, reached reached his residence in Zaman Park.
Saturday, the federal government had suspended the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Ghulam Muhammad Dogar for his alleged “failure” to protect Pun-jab’s Governor House.
The establishment division of the government issued a notification to suspend the 21-grade officer of the police service.
“Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, a BS-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan pres-ently serving under Government of Punjab, is placed under suspension, with im-mediate effect and until further orders,” the notification issued by the establish-ment division read.
The development came a day after the PTI’s supporters’ violent protest outside the Governor House in Lahore against the attack on the party’s Chairman Imran Khan. –Agencies
