He said PTI would protest in courts and rallies across the country (File)
Lahore:
Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party announced on Tuesday it would hold nationwide protests on Saturday against alleged rigging of the February 8 election that prevented it from returning to power.
Speaking at a press conference after meeting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, the party’s secretary-general and its prime ministerial candidate at the high-security Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, Omar Ayub reiterated There is “massive” manipulation in Pakistan. Opinion polls.
Geo News quoted him as saying that the PTI would join other political parties in protesting across the country against “rigging” in polls.
“Our seats were stolen with just a stroke of a pen. The people gave the mandate to the former PKR president. The national mandate and our seats are both under attack,” Mr Ayub said.
He said the PTI would protest in courts and rallies across the country.
“Our fight is a fight for truth,” Mr Ayub said, adding that the party had nominated Aamir Dogar and Junaid Khan as speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly respectively.
Separately, according to “Dawn” report, PTI central leader Sher Afzal Marwat told the media outside Adiala Prison that Imran Khan hopes that the country will take to the streets on March 2 to oppose Alleged election manipulation.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
