Sept 29 , 2015
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PTI decides to stage rally in Lahore on Oct 9
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced on Tuesday to hold the rally originally scheduled for October 4, in Lahore on October 9.
The decision to shift the rally from Islamabad to Lahore was decided in a meeting today chaired by Khan.
The Islamabad capital administration had denied permission to PTI to stage the rally at D-Chowk, Islamabad.
Addressing a press conference this evening at Bani Gala, the PTI chief expressed his grief on the Mina tragedy and demanded the government to expedite efforts to locate missing pilgrims.
He went on to say that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) took a stay order in NA-154 Lodhran due to fear of defeat just two weeks before October 11.
“They had been telling us not to run away from NA-154 bye-election and right before election they themselves got the stay order; this is typical Shahbaz Sharif type politics where he himself hid behind a stay order and remained chief minister for four years.”
Khan added that in a constituency where 53,000 votes were proven as bogus it was not mere incompetence but actually rigging.
"Following this, we would not be surprised if PML-N take a stay order in NA-122."
He further said that PTI has decided to not stop its protest against the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
“We will protest in Lahore but our protests will not stop there, we will come back to Islamabad again. We will stage a rally in Lahore on October 9 and then announce our protest date after October 11 for D-Chowk in Islamabad.”
The PTI chairman went on to say that the Election Tribunal in its verdict clearly stated that Siddique Baloch was proven to be an illiterate and uneducated person.
“PML-N has a history of posting biased people in all the big regulatory institutions of Pakistan. Election Commission Punjab and PML-N are the same.”
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk