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PTI, PAT workers start returning home from sit-ins to celebrate Eidul Azha
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ISLAMABAD – Participants of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) have started packing their luggage on the reported indication by respective leadership that they could go to their hometowns for celebrating Eidul Azha with family members.
“I have packed my luggage on the indication of my zonal leader (Nazam-e-Ilaqa) by his respective leadership that we could go to our hometowns for celebrating Eid ul Azha,” said Muazzam Bukhari, a PAT worker. The PTI and the PAT sources indicated that PTI Chairman Imran Khan and PAT chief Dr Tahirul Qadri had finally decided to end sit-ins in front of the Parliament House and allowed their followers to return home.
“The participants of sit-ins wrote letters to both their respective leaders for going back to their hometowns for celebrating Eidul Azha,” the sources added. However, a number of workers said that even after weeks, they had no idea when Dr Tahirul Qadri and Imran Khan would formally call off their sit-ins.
“Now Eidul Azha is approaching fast and they intend to celebrate it with their families, but they were still uncertain when the sit-ins would be called off” they said. Similarly, a sound system operator, Yasir said that they were also fed up with the situation and wanted to go back, but PTI leaders had given no indication in this regard.
Mubashir, who brought a sound system too for the sit-in, from Dera Ghazi Khan, said that he had been missing his family for the last 45 days. An old woman, Sughra, said that when the female protestors asked the organisers about their return, they made lame excuses for the extended stay.
Later both the PTI and the PAT top leadership after a short meeting decided to allow their supporters to return to their hometowns for celebrating Eid. Meanwhile many the PTI and the PAT supporters on Tuesday were seen packing their tents and preparing to return home after sitting for 46 days on the Constitution Avenue.
The participants particularly women and children were happy on packing their luggage and tents after 46 days. Mubeen Ahmed, an active PAT supporter, said though they wanted a positive change in Pakistan but they wanted to celebrate Eidul Azha in their native village at Patoki near Lahore.
“We did not know that sit-ins would prolong till 46 days, but now we want to leave Islamabad to celebrate Eid in our hometowns,” he added. A PAT worker said that due to the viral diseases and sleepless nights, the eyes of various participants were affected in the red zone, and now they were fed up of the situation.
Rahimullah Marwat, along with his six other colleagues from Lakki Marwat who were disappointed by the poor cleanliness and hygenic conditions at the sit-in sites were now seeking help to find a bus stand, so that they could return to their native towns, for Eid ul Azha.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk