Chairman PTI Imran Khan announced that long march towards Islamabad for the country’s “Haqeeqi Azadi” would start from Lahore’s Liberty Chowk on October 28, Friday.
The long march for the nation’s “haqeeqi azadi” will start from Lahore’s Liberty Chowk on Friday, October 28, PTI Chairman Imran Khan declared on Tuesday.
The former prime minister announced the march will start from the Liberty Chowk at 11am and he will personally lead it while speaking at a press conference in Lahore while being accompanied by the party’s top leadership.
“This is our march for haqeeqi azaadi and it has no timeframe. We will reach Islamabad from the GT Road and the nation will come to Islamabad from across Pakistan.
“I am predicting this will be the biggest sea of people in the history of the country,” Imran claimed.
Going on, he clarified that the long march was “not politics” but a “war for the future of Pakistan.
“This is something way beyond politics, it is a war for freedom from these thieves that have been imposed over us. This jihad will decide where the country will go.”
Elaborating on the demands of the march, the former premier said that he only wanted one thing: “The decision of who will head the country belongs to the public.”
“We want that the people make the decision. Today, I am appealing to the entire nation that you will have to decide […] do we want to go on this way of becoming a free country or serve these thieves.”
He stated that the protest would be peaceful in response to a query. We won’t breach the law or enter the Red Zone, we promise. Whatever takes place in Islamabad will be in accordance with the court’s permission.
“We have given instructions to everyone to remain peaceful and we will just show where the nation stands.”
At the outset of the press conference, the PTI chief said he had planned the march earlier. “We held a peaceful protest on May 25 but they inflicted violence on us. And if I had not called it off then the next day there really would’ve been discord and blood in the country,” he said.
“Hence, to save my country and prevent chaos, I called it off,” he added.
Imran went on to say that he wanted to clarify the purpose of the march because he was told that he was being irresponsible as the country was going through a tough time.
“I want to remind the nation that when we came to power in 2018, Pakistan was bankrupt and facing the biggest foreign deficit in history. Our reserves were around $9 billion, our trade deficit was three times more,” he said, giving an overview of his government’s economic performance.
Imran recalled that his government had been overthrown by a foreign conspiracy and that thieves had taken control of the nation. “And then there was a deluge of lawsuits filed against us after we won the July by-elections. I was the subject of 24 FIRs (first information reports). Cases were brought against all of our top officials.
