PTI’s ‘Jail Bharo’ drive to start from Lahore on 22nd

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday announced that his birthday party’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ could start from Lahore next week in protest towards economic instability and the alleged crackdown on PTI leaders and workers.Addressing celebration supporters from his Zaman Park house in Lahore via video link, the previous top minister warned that when the ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’, the rulers might find no location empty in prisons.

“I am directing my party to begin arrangements for the release of the movement on Feb 22, Wednesday,” he said. “We will begin the movement from Lahore, and then kick it off in all other primary towns each other day and we can fill all of the jails.”

Earlier this month, the PTI leader had announced that his celebration management could quickly begin “relationship arrests” in response to the government’s roughshod tactics to muzzle the competition celebration via “politically motivated” cases.

Imran mentioned that several party leaders in custody were tortured. “Shehbaz Gill changed into tortured, Azam Swati was stripped naked. Such moves have now not been taken in opposition to political fighters in the past,” he stated.

“The treatment meted out to Sheikh Rashid and Fawad Chaudhry is in the front of everyone. What passed off to Arshad Sharif is also in the front of each person,” he endured. Those who “tortured us on May 25 [during the PTI long march last year] are imposed again”.

Imran alleged that his birthday celebration leaders have been being threatened with dire results, consisting of threats to their households, and coerced to sign “fake statements”. “Our people are being arrested and made to sign fake statements,” he stated.

“If they desire to arrest us, we will fulfil it thru the ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’. “Don’t scare us with jails. When our motion begins, there may be no space left in jails,” he stated. “It will break the idol of worry.”

He expressed gratitude to his supporters who had assembled out of doors his Lahore residence while rumours circulated of his intended arrest. Imran said that anything they do, “we will no longer allow them to rig the elections”.

The PTI chairman expressed concerns over the government’s tactics to put off elections in Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), pronouncing that if polls were no longer held inside 90 days of the dissolution of the assemblies, the caretaker governments might be deemed illegal.

“They [caretaker governments] might be violating the Article 6 of the Constitution [if they remain in power after 90 days].”

He additionally slammed the Election Commission of Pakistan for making excuses to postpone the polls in both the provinces.

Economic instability

Imran expressed deep subject that the foreign places Pakistanis had commenced withdrawing their investments due to the authorities’s negative performance and financial instability within the u . S . A ..

He said that a country may want to rise up again even after being hit by way of two atom bombs – a reference to the healing of Japan after the World War II. He defended his authorities’s settlement with the IMF, saying: “We took tough choices but did no longer raise prices.”