Asad Umar, secretary-general of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), praised the party’s members and supporters for attending the rally at Minar-e-Pakistan despite “all the obstacles” and predicted that the coming week will mark a turning point in Pakistan’s history.
The former planning minister claimed, while speaking at a press conference in Lahore, that residents of the city came out despite being afraid, being arrested, and having containers placed all over the place. Asad Umar criticized the current administration for mismanaging the economy of the country and claimed that the country was suffering because the current leaders were imposed upon them. He continued, “People are dying while waiting in line for flour.”
The PTI leader pointed out that Ramadan was the month in which Pakistan was founded and that this is also when its “journey to prosperity” will start. Fawad Chaudhry, senior vice-president of the PTI, took over the press conference and addressed the country’s ongoing political crisis by asserting that there is no other option in Pakistan but to implement the Constitution. According to Fawad Chaudhry, the ongoing crackdown on PTI workers resulted in the arrest of more than 2,000 people.
“People are being taken from Lahore and reported missing. Azhar Mashwani vanished,” he continued. He cited the Punjab government’s “steps to curtail PTI’s power show” and claimed that containers had been placed throughout the city to block it off. He continued, “Lahore’s entry and exit routes were blocked.
He warned that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) led government will have Pakistan added to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list again.
Earlier, PTI leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday reacted to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s letter to President Dr Arif Alvi stated that the latter had advised the former to impement on the Constitution regarding elections in Punjab and KP.
He said no doubt they [rulers] would assume this advice as a press release of the PTI. “The country would have been come out of constitutional, political and economic crisis had the act of dissolving the assembles and the process of new elections been implemented upon.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif penned a reply letter to President Dr Arif Alvi, terming the latter’s written correspondence regarding elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) a “one-sided affair” and “the PTI’s press release”.
The premier wrote the letter that contains five pages and seven points in response to the letter written by President Alvi on March 24.
