PTI vows to make Minar-e-Pakistan public meeting successful

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) on Thursday chalked out a comprehensive plan to make its public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan on October 30 a success with a pledge to break all illegal restrictions imposed by the City District Government Lahore (CDGL).
Chairing a party meeting to devise a comprehensive strategy for the public meeting, PTI Lahore President Mahmood Rashid said that party chairman Imran Khan would make an important announcement regarding national politics and the party. He told party workers to use their energies to succeed the meeting and overlook all restrictions and negative tactics of the Punjab government. During the meeting, it was decided to constitute an organising committee, which would work for fundraising, transport, publicity, media coverage and public awareness of the meeting. It was also decided that publicity for the public meeting would be done through erecting banners, displaying posters and stickers.
Mahmood said that it was the PTI’s constitutional right to hold a public gathering and no unconstitutional restriction would be accepted. He advised party workers to work under their constitutional limits and succeed the gathering, as it was their democratic right. The meeting, which was attended by PTI Lahore Senior Vice-President Zaheer Khokhar, General Secretary Murad Rass, Farid Ahmed and others criticised the CDGL and Punjab government for granting permission of the public meeting very late. PTI leaders said that the Punjab government was afraid of the PTI’s popularity owing to which it tried to use delaying tactics while permitting the PTI to hold the public meeting. Mahmood said that the October 30 public meeting would prove to be the last nail in Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) coffin and show that Lahore belonged to which political party. He said that millions of people would attend the meeting despite all restrictions.