Imran Khan vows to reach Islamabad at all costs

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday vowed to reach Islamabad at all costs. Condemning the crackdown on party workers, particularly in Punjab, to prevent them from participating in the long march.

“We will reach Islamabad at all costs and will stay there till the dissolution of the National Assembly and announcement of date for holding free and fair elections in the country,” he told reporters at the Chief Minister’s House here.

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Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, former foreign minister and PTI vice-chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umar. Pervez Khattak and many other senior members of the party were present at the press conference.

The federal government has blocked the GT Road and Motorway between Islamabad and KP; to stop the PTI workers from reaching the federal capital city.

Imran Khan gave the example of the Afghan people (Taliban); saying how the Afghans fought the foreign powers and forced them to flee the country.

He urged the people to break the chains of fear and come out in his support of a real Azadi (freedom).

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Imran Khan and the PTI central leadership have based in Peshawar last to chalk out a strategy against the government; mobilise the party workers to ensure their participation in what they called was the Azadi March.

Khan’s political opponents had accused him of using the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government resources in hatching a conspiracy against the democratically-elected government.

Also, they alleged that Imran Khan had hidden in Peshawar to evade arrest by the law-enforcement authorities in Islamabad and left the party workers to suffer.