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PTI’s Ali Muhammad Khan urges party to call off protest for SCO summit

News Desk

Oct 12

Ali Muhammad Khan, a central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has expressed opposition to his party’s call for a protest at D-Chowk during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, which is to be held in Islamabad on October 15 and 16.

“In my personal opinion, there should not be a protest during the SCO meeting. However, if we are continually pushed against the wall, then we will have no option left,” he told Rahman Azhar on Express News’ program Center Stage.

On the other hand, the PTI political committee announced a protest at D-Chowk in Islamabad on October 15 last night.

The meeting was held without the presence of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chief Minister Ali Ameen Gandapur, yet the Secretary of Information Sheikh Waqas Akram, in a statement, confirmed that a large-scale protest will be held at D-Chowk on October 15.

He instructed all organisational heads, from the central committee to the regional level, to prepare for the protest.

Additionally, the party has rescheduled protests across the Punjab province in the wake of the D-Chowk demonstration, emphasising that this protest is against the “illegitimate rulers”.

It was claimed in the recent party meeting that PTI founder Imran Khan, currently imprisoned in Adiala Jail, is being subjected to a new wave of brutality.

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, while visiting Police Line Headquarters, addressed the media and slammed PTI as a “chaos-monger”.

“The Islamabad police foiled the fanatic group’s deadly plan,” Shehbaz asserted. “In 2014, these chaos-mongers rioted day and night for seven months at D-Chowk, forcing the government to postpone the visit of our close friend, Chinese President Xi Jinping,” he said, alluding to PTI’s 2014 sit-in.

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