Many citizens of Karachi received this text message on their cell phones on Tuesday and Wednesday: “I invite you to the National Unity Convention in Karachi on 25th December at Mazar-e-Quaid. I hope to see you there with all family and friends! Imran Khan.”
It appears that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is making full use of the telecommunication technology to ensure that its Karachi rally is a success.
The party also ran a successful campaign through the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) through phone calls to subscribers, in which the PTI chief, in a recorded message, asks citizens to attend the rally.
The PTI has also hired the services of cellular phone companies to make its convention successful.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) claimed that it cannot stop the PTCL or any cellular company from doing its business until it receives a complaint against such phone calls or text messages.
“It is a commercial activity and the PTA has nothing to do with this,” said Col (retd) Muhammad Younus, the authority’s information director.
The cellular companies have sent the PTI’s message to all those who bought a subscriber identity module (SIM) in Karachi, even those who are no longer living in the city.
“I received a text message on Tuesday from PTI Chairman Imran Khan and he invited me to his party’s National Unity Convention on December 25,” Amjad Ali, a resident of Gilgit who studied at the University of Karachi (KU), told Pakistan Today on the phone.
“I have forwarded Khan’s invitation to my friends in Karachi and asked them to participate in the PTI convention on my behalf. However, they replied that they were invited twice, once on their landline numbers and then they also received the invitation through text messages on their cell phones,” he added.
Many youngsters have also started approaching their friends to convince them to attend the PTI convention.
Sarmad Ali, a former KU student, told Pakistan Today that he has asked many friends and acquaintances to participate in the convention.
“We have hired a minibus and all my friends have decided to go see Imran at the Mazar-e-Quaid on December 25,” he said. “We will leave from Shahrah-e-Faisal in the form of a caravan,” he added. “No one is sponsoring this and we are doing all this on our own.”
I received a call in which Jawad Ahmed Singer advising to join the PTI Rally at Karachi. New Trand lol
awesome
e-business ..e-marketing mb boys wat to du think?? Aarash Kamangir Wasim Ahmad
its awful to call people for marketing without their prior permission
i got a call to bt i ignored lol
IT IS A GOOD EFFORT WHICH PTI IS MAKING TO ACHIEVE THE GOAL OBVIOUSLY SUCCESS OF 'JALSA". WE SHOULD APPRECIATE IT THAT PTI IS USING LATEST TECHNOLOGY.
Its really a nice way to invite people to take part in political activity.
The new ideas every now n then tells that at least this part has a brain n they do use it as well
The calls are to educate people, it's on them to decide or even listen to the calls ….!!
praise for ppl lke sarmad
very nice…we r with I K
i want to meet my hero imran and give some advices
kaptaan is kaptaan no 1 can replace him great work kaptaan we are with you plz push for overseas voters plz
i will come i have already promised 5 chairs to my family
People of Pakistan zindabad. Pakistan paiendabad.
Death of morality and ethics.. !! this is not the point of "taunt" this is the point of shame for all of us. !!
kyaa hamarey ikhlaaq itnaa gir gye hain ky ham sarey aam loot maar karne waalu ki muzzammat ky bajaye uss pe khushiyaan mana rhaa hay ?? dont u see failure of government ?? jin ki waja se halaat itnaa kharab ho gy ky log jalsu se chairs uthaany pe majboor hain.. !! Shame on all of us
every patriotic pakistani is in PTI with our Patriotic leader ..Imran Khan…
we should support imran khan & we beleive that imran khan will win like (1992) world cup.
look at the imran he took inzamam directly to world cup who never played international game in pak before 1992. see what he done. he is the light from allah. I maran khan pak zindabad.
UFFF IMRAN KHAN HOW DESPERATE U ARE FOR POWER, BUT INSHAALLAH U WILL NEVER GET IT.
You keep voting for the incumbent crooks after the wonderful job they have done for the country.
Anyway, i always thought Doctors were quite intelligent but you must be the exception.
i hope someone makes you understand dr sana how important a role imran khan has played in pakistan today! he gave us HOPE!! in times like THIS!!! even if he does nothing from today onwards, the fact that he makes me and all of the people around me have the will to fight for our country….IS ENOUGH!
PAKISTAN ZINDABAD! IMRAN KHAN IS OUR NEXT PM !!!! 😀
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