Imran Khan, Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), will resume his party’s Haqeeqi Azadi March from Lahore’s Shahdara district on Saturday.
Today, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry declared that the march would continue to the Gujranwala area of Kamoke.
“The affection that people have shown Imran Khan highlights the political consciousness of the nation,” Fawad remarked on Twitter, adding that the PTI wants to thank mothers who attended to the march with their children in particular.
According to the former information minister, the PTI’s Haqeeqi Azadi movement included those who wanted “to change the system for the next generation”. He maintained that the movement aimed to empower people and bring “decision-making out of closed rooms”.
“Pakistan’s middle class has come out to alter the obsolete system, and this system will change under Imran Khan’s leadership,” he stated.
“This is the country’s largest freedom movement,” the party chairman said, according to the PTI’s official Twitter feed.
PTI kicks-off march
After Friday prayers, the march left Lahore’s Liberty Chowk. Imran and other senior party leaders rode in a container to the start of the long march.
Addressing the supporters, the PTI chairman stated that the primary goal and demand of the long march was free and fair elections in the country, which would ensure Pakistan’s true independence.
“The time has arrived for us to begin the path of true independence for this country,” Imran remarked, emphasizing that he was going on the most significant journey of his 26-year political career.
“My march is not for politics, elections, or personal ambitions, but simply for the sake of ensuring that the nation is truly free,” stated the former prime minister Imran Khan from atop the container.
“Our decisions should not be made in Washington or in London; rather, Pakistan’s decisions should be made in Pakistan for the [benefit of] the people of Pakistan,” he stated.
The PTI chairman Imran Khan went on to say that he wished to see Pakistan as a country where people’s rights were respected and everyone was treated equally under the law.
