Saturday, December 24, 2011

PTI inviting citizens to Sunday rally through recorded messages

Staff Report

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is using technology to reach out to as many people as possible to urge them to attend its Sunday meeting in Karachi in large numbers.

A Peshawar-based resident of Karachi was surprised by a call wherein the caller was no other than Imran Khan, central chairman of PTI, requesting her to attend his December 25 “tsunami meeting” in Karachi.

“The caller was Imran Khan as I recognised his voice and it looks like he recorded the message to woo as many people to the Sunday meeting as possible,” the lady, who temporarily resides in Peshawar in connection with her job, told Daily Times on Friday.

PTI is reaching out to residents of Karachi through mobile phones to invite them to the Sunday public meeting and it appears the party struck a deal with mobile phone companies to spread the word.

“It was Imran Khan asking me to come to the Sunday public meeting,” she said. The lady was reached on mobile as her mobile phone number was issued in Karachi.

It is for the first time that a political party was innovative in spreading the word about its public meeting and Imran Khan adopted an effective policy to spread the party message through technology.

“Hello, I am Imran Khan and you are invited to attend our public meeting,” the recording informed the lady.

The PTI hopes to make the Karachi public meeting as big and as successful as the one in Lahore, stronghold of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which triggered widespread belief that Imran Khan was emerging as an alternative political force to challenge the Pakistan People’s Party and the PML-N. “Such calls would have been made to millions in Karachi,” the lady said. Karachi houses a population of around twenty million and is the biggest city in the country.

 

Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk

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