Hunger strike camp established outside Parliament House against injustices, says Barrister Gohar
\nISLAMABAD: The embattled Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday established a hunger strike camp outside the Parliament House in Islamabad to demand release of the party founder Imran Khan and other leaders.
\nThe former ruling party has faced back-to-back setbacks in a few days as its central secretariat in the federal capital was sealed by the authorities earlier today a day after the party\u2019s Information Secretary Raoof Hasan was nabbed along with the other party workers.
\nA day earlier, Islamabad police took Hasan into custody from the party\u2019s Central Secretariat for heading a digital media cell and its alleged involvement in running anti-Pakistan propaganda.
\nSpeaking to journalists outside parliament, the party chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the hunger strike will be observed daily till 8pm as a token protest against \u201cinjustice\u201d and for the PTI founder\u2019s release and the supremacy of the parliament.
\nHe added that he conveyed his party\u2019s reservations to National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq over \u201cillegal and unconstitutional actions\u201d.
\nThe lawyer-cum-politician said that his party raised voice for the PTI lawmakers and their families who were being picked up.
\n\u201c[The] PTI founder and his wife have been imprisoned for no reason. This camp will continue till the release of the PTI founder.\u201d
\nGohar strongly condemned the sealing of the party\u2019s secretariat in the federal capital.
\nIt is noteworthy to mention here that the Islamabad administration sealed the PTI\u2019s central office earlier today over \u201clack of fire and life safety arrangements\u201d.
\nIn a notice, which was obtained by Geo News, the administration said that the building lacked up-to-date fire extinguishers, emergency evacuation plan, an independent power source for the emergency system, and standard electric wiring.
\nThe PTI secretariat was sealed by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) two months ago during an anti-encroachment operation in which a portion of the party\u2019s central office was demolished. However, the party office reopened following the directives of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
\nAnother PTI senior leader and former NA speaker Asad Qaiser said: \u201cOur first demand is to release the PTI founder, his wife Bushra Bibi and other detainees, including Hasan and party workers.\u201d
\nHe held the federal government responsible for the recent wave of lawlessness and inflation across the country.
\nQaiser urged the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government to immediately resign over \u201cbad governance and mismanaging the economy\u201d.
\nPTI\u2019s Secretary-General Omar Ayub Khan said that the token hunger strike was being observed for the release of the incarcerated former premier, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and other arrested leaders and workers.
\nThe opposition leader in the National Assembly censured the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) for sealing the PTI\u2019s central office once again. Instead of the PTI secretariat, the MCI should seal its own office \u201cwhere mice running everywhere\u201d, he slammed.
\nOmar also demanded the \u201cForm 47\u201d government \u2014 a reference to the alleged manipulation in the February 8 election results \u2014 to immediately resign and announce fresh elections. He added that the PTI wanted free and fair polls to pull the country out of crisis.
\nAddressing the participants of the hunger strike camp, Shibli Faraz said that today\u2019s event was part of the PTI\u2019s political struggle. He also announced that the Imran-founded party will hold a countrywide protest on Friday, July 26, 2024.
\nSeveral PTI lawmakers joined the hunger strike camp including Gohar, Qaiser, Omar, Faraz, Latif Khosa, Ali Muhammad Khan, Falak Naz Chitrali, Sheikh Waqas, Senator Humayun Mohmand, Saifullah Abro, Shabbir Ali Qureshi, Sahibzada Sibghatullah, Mehboob Shah, Sajid Mohmand, Dawar Kundi, and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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