Pakistan
Imran Khan announces to hold anti-govt long march on Friday
The former prime minister says the PTI will begin long march from Lahore's Liberty Chowk on October 28
Islamabad: PTI Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan announced to hold anti-government long march to Islamabad on Friday.
He said the party would kick off the much-awaited long march from Liberty Chowk on October 28, adding the haqeeqi azaadi march would have no timeframe.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, he said the party leaders and activists would gather at 11am to kick off march towards Islamabad.
Khan claimed that the long march would the biggest-ever in the histroy of Pakistan, saying the march would pass through the GT Road and the people would join it.
He brushed aside the allegations levelled against him by his opponents for being "irresponsible" for holding a march when the country was undergoing a crisis, saying when he had assumed office as the prime minister of the country, Pakistan was suffering from the "worst economic" situation.
The former prime minister claimed that their doors were open for talks, but now he beleived that they [the rulers] wouldn't conduct elections.
To a question, he said the protest would be peaceful. “We are not going to break the law or go into the Red Zone. Whatever will happen in Islamabad, it will be according to what the courts have permitted us.