There were not 0.1 million people at the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) rally at the ground near the Mazar-e-Quaid on Sunday as the party had anticipated, but there were enough participants – roughly around 20,000 – to spare it embarrassment and in fact make it feel proud of its efforts. The rally was supposed to start at 2pm, but until 4pm, only a small number of people had gathered at the venue, most of them of Bengali and Behari origin who were earlier participating in a protest arranged by the Pakistan Bengali Ittehad.
By 5pm, most media personnel were of the view that the rally was a failure. But after that, a large number of people, many of them from Malir, arrived there on buses. A significant number of people at the rally hailed from Gilgit, Chitral and Swat. The APML claimed that it had arranged 60,000 chairs. Many buses were also arranged to bring people from different parts of the city to the venue. Party leader Ghulam Rasool Unnar has arranged many participants from Sakrand.
The stage and sound and light systems were pretty much the same as the ones used by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in its rally last month.
Five large LCDs were installed, the main one on the stage. Walkthrough gates were also installed but most of them were not working.
According to sources, the Sunni Tehreek and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement had silently lent their support to the APML rally to make it successful.
As the sun started to set, the weather turned chilly and many participants of the rally started burning the sticks of party flags to warm themselves.
The media was told that party chief Pervez Musharraf would start his speech at around 7:30pm. But at around 6:30pm, many participants started leaving due to the increasing cold. This compelled Musharraf to start his speech 30 minutes prior to the scheduled time.
When his speech started, there were only around 6,000 people left in the ground and many seats were empty.
Music was played between speeches the way PTI had done during its rally. Singers sung songs about Musharraf. Some participants wore shirts displaying a picture of the former president.
Banners were put up on which the prices of commodities during Musharraf’s tenure and the present time were displayed.
Considering that the APML has been around for a relatively shorter period, the rally can be counted as a success.
There was not 20,000 people there. This is bare faced lie. I would say 10,000 is pushing it a little. Even then, spending 1 Crore rupees for such a small crowd is a poor return
AROUND 3,000 PEOPLE AT THE GROUND ………HAHAHA
hang that person he is killer of thousand innocent peoples ..
This is what becomes of those who work against Pakistan……
Not only he is a failure in a city in which he thought he could gather numbers, but worst is that he wont be calling it a day in politics.
Nishan-e-Ibrat ban gaya hai dunya ke liyay!!!!!
Musharraf is a shameless person but the people who attended his rally are more shameless. He broke the law of the country several times, he is killer of the lal masjid children, he is the one who sold Pakistanis to US just for a few dollors. Now by renting people and copying Imran Khan's style, he miserably failed to gather support of the poeple. People wont even spit on you! Shame on you Musharraf! shame on you!!!
Musharaf is a supporter of Israel and American ally… We don't want him back.
LOL what a joke this guy and to quite an extent the two mainstream parties (the topi drama PMLN & PPP) are!
hardly 8000
i was part of teh jalsa and the # were good enough considering that Mushraff is away from Pakistan since 3 years and the party is only one year old. Just ask Imran Khan that after a year how large crowd he was able to gather.
He has delivered in the past
I went in jalsa and saw that there was hundred of buses and the people was from interior sindh, they brought karachi just for fun.. very low locals..
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