As the PTI held its power show at the Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore a day earlier, Secretary General Asad Umar has claimed the coming week will be a turning point in Pakistan’s history.
“The coming week will be a turning point in Pakistan’s history,” the PTI leader said, while addressing a presser alongside the party’s leadership at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday.
The PTI politician and his colleagues were gathered at the press club to condemn the arrests of PTI workers and the government’s bid to curtail the party’s major event in Lahore following the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) decision to postpone elections in Punjab.
Umar added that the people of Lahore came out to attend the party’s rally despite fear disseminated among the public by the government, the arrests that followed and containers placed across the city.
Censuring the government for mishandling the country’s economy and the nation’s sufferings which have followed, Umar said that people are losing their lives while queueing up to get flour.
He warned the government regarding the people’s reaction to their performance. “They know what people will do to them.”
Meanwhile, PTI’s Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry claimed that 2,000 people were arrested in the ongoing wave of arrests of his party’s workers. “People are being picked and rendered missing from Lahore. Azhar Mashwani went missing. It has been three days.”
