Summary PTI chairman Imran Khan had announced to hold rally in Raiwind on Friday.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Lahore High Court on Thursday allowed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold Raiwind march.
The verdict was announced by LHC’s three-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Hamid.
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 September 30.
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.
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.
Opposition parties have been giving tough time to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after leaked documents from the Mossack Fonseca law firm in Panama showed his sons Hassan and Hussain and daughter Maryam owned at least three offshore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which studied the papers, said those companies had engaged in at least $25 million in property and acquisition deals.
Nawaz Sharif and his family have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, saying that assets were legally acquired through the family’s network of businesses and industries in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
Political opponents however, have alleged that the assets were gained through corruption during Nawaz Sharif’s previous two stints as prime minister in the 1990s.
