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Imran Khan, founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Photo: Archive
ISLAMABAD:
Senior PTI leaders on Wednesday announced the launch of a post-Eid movement aimed at securing the release of the party’s founding president Imran Khan and restoring what they described as constitutional rule in the country.
The campaign has been named “PTI Founder’s Liberation Peace Movement”.
Addressing a press conference, PTI general secretary Salman Akram Raja said the movement would start after Eid and would be carried out peacefully. He said millions of young Pakistanis were facing disillusionment amid rising poverty and a deteriorating economy. “It is our duty to guide Pakistan in the right direction. The youth of this country will play their role in bringing it out of the crisis,” he said.
Raja added that the key objectives of the movement included the “restoration of the Constitution and the rule of law”, the release of the founding president of the PTI and “true freedom” for all Pakistanis. He said the justice system had “collapsed” and thousands of citizens were jailed in what he called fabricated cases.
