PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary Information Sheikh Waqas Akram said on Friday that the PTI would take back its mandate stolen on February 8 during the party’s scheduled nationwide protests on Nov 24.
Speaking to media outside the Peshawar High Court (PHC), Akram said his party leadership would try its best to take maximum people to the streets, adding that everyone including lawyers, traders, students and members of civil society should join the PTI’s protest against the government.
“Most of our workers reached the D-Chowk on our last call for protest despite 35-hour long shelling,” he claimed.
Speaking about former first lady Bushra Bibi’s participation in the protest, Akram said if a wife joined protest for the release of her husband, it isn’t called politics, adding that few relationships were above politics.
Earlier, Justice Syed Arshad Ali conducted hearing on Akram’s pleas seeking transit bail.
PTI Punjab leaders to meet in Peshawar
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders from Punjab held a meeting in Peshawar, which was chaired by its Chairman Barrister Gohar at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM House.
According to media reports, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur also attended the key party meeting.
The sources said that PTI Punjab chapter President Hammad Azhar was also in attendance at the meeting. There were earlier reports that the Punjab leadership of PTI was planning to hold meeting in Peshawar to avoid arrests.
Senior PTI leader Sheikh Waqas Akram also confirmed that the leaders from Punjab would hold the key huddle in Peshawar as they faced difficulties in holding meeting in their own province.
