Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced that the “Jail Bharo Tehreek (court arrest movement)” is set to kick off today, with hopes to counter the “attack on constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights” and the “economic meltdown” by the incumbent government.
\nTaking to Twitter, the former prime minister said that the PTI is set to start the Jail Bharo campaign for two main reasons.
\n“One, it is a peaceful, non-violent protest against the attack on our constitutionally-guaranteed fundamental rights. We are facing sham FIRs and NAB cases, custodial torture, attacks on journalists and social media people,” wrote the PTI chief.
\nKhan went on to say that the second is against the economic meltdown brought on by a “cabal of crooks who have money laundered billions in looted wealth and gotten NROs for themselves while crushing the people, especially, the poor and the middle class, under the burden of spiralling inflation and rising unemployment.”
\nSeparately, to refresh the party workers’ zeal for the court arrest movement, Khan released a video message, urging them to \u201cfill up prisons and shatter the idols of fear”.
\nHe called on all Pakistanis to join the movement to achieve “Haqeeqi Azadi”.
\nThe PTI chief, in the wake of sedition cases filed against his party leaders including Fawad Chaudhry, Azam Swati and Shahbaz Gill, had announced the movement on February 4.
\nIn the first phase of the movement, the party\u2019s senior leaders \u2014 Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Asad Umar \u2014 voluntarily decided to surrender themselves to the authorities on Tuesday.
\nPTI Lahore chapter President Imtiaz Shaikh had announced that former Punjab governor Omer Sarfraz Cheema, Waleed Iqbal, Murad Raas, Muhammad Khan Madni, and Fawad Rasool, accompanied by 200 workers will voluntarily surrender themselves to the authorities in the metropolis.
\nHe had said the movement will start from Lahore’s Charing Cross at 2pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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