The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf 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.
Speaking to journalists, the party chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that the hunger strike will be observed daily till 8pm as a token protest against “injustice” and for the PTI founder’s release and the supremacy of the parliament.
He added that he conveyed his party’s reservations to National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq over “illegal and unconstitutional actions”.
He said that his party raised voice for the PTI lawmakers and their families who were being picked up. “[The] PTI founder and his wife have been imprisoned for no reason. This camp will continue till the release of the PTI founder.” Gohar strongly condemned the sealing of the party’s secretariat in the federal capital.
Another PTI senior leader and former NA speaker Asad Qaiser said: “Our first demand is to release the PTI founder, his wife Bushra Bibi and other detainees, including Hasan and party workers.”
He held the federal government responsible for the recent wave of lawlessness and inflation across the country. Qaiser urged the PML-N government to immediately resign over “bad governance and mismanaging the economy”.
PTI’s 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.
