Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has warned that any attempt to rig the elections would push the country towards anarchy, The News reported on Monday.
Imran made this warning as PTI activists and supporters took to the streets on Sunday night in almost all the major cities of the country against the runaway inflation plaguing the country, at the call of the party chairman.
Imran Khan addressed the gatherings via video-link from Bani Gala, telling his supporters that he would soon give a call for peaceful agitation, which would end only the new election dates are announced.
The party installed large screens at major protest venues across the country. The major protests were held at Islamabad’s F-9 Park, Karachi’s Shahrah-e-Quaideen, Lahore’s Liberty Chowk, Faisalabad’s Ghanta Ghar Chowk, Rawalpindi’s Commercial Market, Multan’s Shah Abdullah Chowk and Peshawar’s Hasht Nagari Gate. The demonstrations were also held in other cities of the country.
The PTI chairman claimed that if the current rulers were allowed to stay in power, they will destroy all the state institutions as they had already buried NAB and FIA. Imran claimed that if general elections were not free and fair, the situation would further deteriorate in the country and regretted that the rulers had taken along the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to rig the by-elections in Punjab and they were using police against their political rivals.
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