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Long March will start from Lahore on Friday: Imran Khan

Web DeskOctober 26, 2022205 comments

Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), said on Monday that the long March against the coalition government would start from Liberty Chowk on Friday. He asked his workers and supporters to meet at the place he named.

Imran told the media about his plan at the 90 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam. Imran said that there were three long marches during his time as prime minister. Two of them were led by Fazlur Rehman, the head of the JUIF, and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari directed one.

“At the time, they didn’t care about the country’s economy,” he said.

The head of the PTI said that Maryam Nawaz, the leader of the PMLN, also tried to hold a long march against the PTI government, but it couldn’t get past Gujjar Khan. He asked the ruling coalition many questions and said they bought loyalty and set up trading markets at the Sindh House.

Imran dared PMLN Quaid Nawaz Sharif to stop his March in Punjab and Asif Ali Zardari to save his political career in Sindh. He said that the next step for the PTI was to win in Sindh. The former premier also said that on May 25, peaceful PTI activists were attacked, and after the party won elections on July 25, several FIRs were filed against him.

He said that when the PTI took over, the country was on the verge of going bankrupt, so his government focused on boosting growth and exports, which were up by 3%. He said that the PTI government handled the Covid-19 crisis well and that the world knew about its “billion trees tsunami” project.

Imran said that the Long March was “far above” politics and that it was like jihad because the people of Pakistan needed to choose sides.

“This March will show if the people want to make these thieves their slaves or not. There is a march for Haqeeqi Azadi, but no one knows when it will happen. We’ll get to Islamabad from the GT Road, and people from all over Pakistan will come to Islamabad”, he said.

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Imran said that when he was prime minister, JUIF chief Fazlur Rehman, PML-Maryam N’s Nawaz, and PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari held two long marches with Fazlur Rehman, Maryam Nawaz, and Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. The government warned the PTI about these marches. The government tried to stop the PTI’s long March by going to the Supreme Court.

But the top court turned down the request for a temporary order to stop the planned long March, which helped the Khan-led party. Before going to the highest court, the government warned the head of the PTI several times. One top official said that if Khan called for another long march, the government would double its policy for May 25.

If the PTI holds another long march, they will come to Islamabad for the second time. The last March was on May 25, and when Khan got to Islamabad, he suddenly stopped the March. During the press conference, Khan said he was supposed to start the long March much earlier, but the government made it hard for the party.

“On May 25, people attacked our peaceful marchers, so we had to cancel it for the good of the country. There were deals made in Sindh House, and our government was overthrown by force. When I won the by-elections in July, I was slammed with court cases,” the head of the PTI said.

He also said that 24 FIRs had been filed against him by the coalition government so far. In response to rumours about negotiations with the coalition government, Imran said that he had said many times that talks between political parties create problems.

“I am sure they [the coalition government] won’t call for early elections because they aren’t ready to play the game,” he said, adding that the long March would be peaceful and that police from Sindh didn’t need to be brought to the capital.

“PTI’s public gatherings and jalsas have always been peaceful, and families have always been there,” he said, asking what the police would do if millions of people joined the March.

He told Asif Ali Zardari, co-chairman of the PML-N and the PPP, that he should run against the PTI in Punjab and Sindh so that Khan could see how they win seats. Imran said that PTI workers in Multan were getting phone calls from unidentified numbers, in which they were told not to join the long March.

“Do they [the government] expect the country to sit quietly like sheep?” he asked, adding that as long as he was alive, he would keep fighting “thieves and this system.”

He also said again that he was the leader of a major political party and didn’t need to beg the US to make decisions for Pakistan because he was in charge.

He said that the PTI was a strong party and that, in the last six months, he had been able to get people out on the streets to fight against injustice.

“We’re not going to fight the government or go to the Red Zone,” he said, emphasising that the PTI will only hold jalsas in places where the court has permitted it to do so.

“All of our marchers have been told to stay calm so that nothing bad happens,” he said. Imran’s opponents said he was “irresponsible” for holding a march when the country was in a crisis.

In response, Imran said that when he became prime minister, Pakistan was in the “worst economic” situation it had ever been in.

“At that time, the country didn’t have enough foreign exchange reserves to keep the rupee from falling,” he said, adding that his government had to deal with the coronavirus pandemic on top of everything else.

Imran praised the former PTI-led government and said that after the Covid-19 pandemic was stopped, the country grew in a way that hadn’t been seen in the last 17 years.

“We tried to help the farmers, and as a result, they were able to grow crops of good quality. Because of the policies of the PTI government, our IT exports went up by a factor of three,” he said.

He also praised the health card programme started by the PTI government and said that similar programmes were not even found in the world’s most developed countries. Referring to his political opponents again, the PTI chief said that “dacoits” saved themselves after getting into power and changing some laws, especially the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance.

“There are clear differences between the Pakistan we left and the Pakistan we see now,” he said, urging people to look at the prices of electricity, oil, and gas when the PTI was in power and when the current government is in charge.

Imran said in response to a question, “We are always ready to talk. I am sure, though, that they won’t hold elections. Even though they rigged the votes in the last election, they didn’t win. They are doing things that are against the law to try to keep me from voting. They tried to throw me out of the Toshakhana case and the foreign funding case.”

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