Imran Khan vows to lead long march on May 25 despite government not allowing

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan announced on Tuesday that he will be leading the “biggest procession in Pakistan’s history” from Peshawar to the federal capital on May 25, dismissing the government’s ban on PTI’s long march to Islamabad.

PTI Chairman, while addressing a press conference in Peshawar which was only open to journalists from private broadcaster ARY News, condemned the current coalition government saying that there was no difference between its tactics and those of military dictators.

“Did we protest when [PPP Chairman] Bilawal staged a long march? Did we arrest him? Fazlur Rehman also staged a march,” he said while claiming that the PTI government had allowed the-then opposition to stage protests and long marches.

Imran Khan, after losing his majority in parliament, got ousted from power last month in a no-confidence vote and announced an anti-government march on Islamabad on Sunday, asking his followers to meet him there on May 25.

Government to stop the long march

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s interior minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that the government has decided that it would not allow PTI’s long march to the capital on May 25.

“They will be stopped so they cannot propagate misleading agendas.” He said, “Do not be misled by Imran Khan. He wants to spread chaos and disorder by calling people from other parties robbers and traitors.”

Arrests and Crackdown against PTI leadership

Several of PTI’s workers and leaders including Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Hammad Azhar, and Yasmeen Rashid, complained of being harassed by the police while many got arrested late Monday night ahead of the planned agitation in Islamabad.

“Peaceful protest is the right of all our citizens,” Khan said in a Twitter post. “The brutal crackdown on PTI [leaders] & workers in Punjab & Islamabad has once again shown us what we are familiar with — the fascist nature of [the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party] when in power.”

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