Summary Latest reports suggest that LHC will give out the detailed verdict at 10:30am on Thursday
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Lahore High Court has reserved verdict on pleas challenging protest march to be led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on September 30 in Raiwind against premier’s alleged corruption and accumulation of illegally attained wealth.
Latest reports suggest that LHC will give out the detailed verdict at 10:30am on Thursday.
The pleas that were filed in the high court against the protest rally being purported as Raiwind march maintained that there was a threat of civil war and riots due to the much hyped confrontation between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on coming Friday.
However, the high court acknowledged stance maintained by PTI that every citizen of Pakistan reserved the right to demonstrate a peaceful protest.
Punjab government, meanwhile, assured the high court of mobilizing all functional assets for provision of security to the locals.
Delaying the order in the issue by a day, the Lahore High Court announced to give out the verdict tomorrow morning.
Raiwind protest
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, after a series of rallies across Pakistan against alleged corrupt government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, is to march towards Raiwind in a much anticipated move by party Chairman, Imran Khan in the coming days.
There has been a lot of ranting between PML-N and PTI leaders in the Parliament ever since the announcement of Raiwind march.
Federal Minister for Water and Power, Abid Sher Ali had said in a statement earlier this month that the leaders who planned to pressure the premier by circling Raiwind should not think that their children and families were secure on the other hand.
Punjab Law Minister, belonging to PML-N, Rana Sanaullah gave a number of rhetorical statements against Imran Khan for scheduling the “anti-Nawaz Sharif” march.
Imran Khan, adamant to go ahead with the latest of his pressure tactics, has responded to the criticism invariably by alleging the government members of corruption and graft.
‘Sit-in politics’
After Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2013 for the third time in his political career, Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf has been involved in a number of small as well as large-scale demonstrations in different parts of the country, a reason why government-favouring sections lambasted Khan for pursuing politics that allegedly revolved only around protests.
The biggest of the protests that Imran Khan has led till date was back in 2014 in D-Chowk of Islamabad which was recorded as the longest running sit-in in the history of Pakistan.
It began on the day when the nation celebrated Independence Day, August 14, 2014 and ended on December 17.
PTI had mobilized a humungous number of people then from across the country to join Imran Khan in his ‘Azadi March’ in Islamabad.
Over a dozen of PTI enthusiasts are still fighting legal cases in the twin cities over storming of state-run television channel and a couple of violent clashes with police during that time that the shaped movement and political alliances.
