Imran Khan approves 25 PTI workers to access main stage
SARGODHA (Dunya News) – Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan, today, has approved 25 names for the people who would have access to the central stage after which 25 passed have been issued for the stage.
Nobody would be allowed entry to the central stage without a pass. The people who have been allowed admittance include vice chairman PTI Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Saifullah Niazi, Ijaz Chaudhry, Mehmood ur Rasheed, Yasmeen Rasid, Andaleeb Abbas, Sheikh Rasheed, Attaullah Esakhelvi and Faisal Javed.
Hina Manzoor, Sadaqat Abbasi, Mumtaz Akhter, Ansar Majeed, Ansar Iqbal Haral, Colonel (r) Ejaz Minhas, Hassan Paracha, Nazeer Ahmad Bhooli, Asghar Lehri, Iftikhar Gondal and Ali Asif Bagga are also among the workers who have been given the permit.
Imran Khan’s personal guard Ayub, Youth leader Ali Awan and Captain (r) Hassan have also been granted access to the central stage.
Participants, on the other hand, have started arriving for the rally organized.
Workers including women are coming to participate in the rally in large numbers whereas the security measures for the event are being handled by PTI workers including 100 PTI women activists.
Earlier, PTI had been all geared up to amp up the political heat through a massive showing in Sargodha on Friday.
The PTI will hold a mass political rally at a stadium in Sargodha even after tragedy of stampede occurred in Multan Stadium.
However, the administration is more careful for Friday show after Multan tragedy which left seven people dead and 40 others injured.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Thursday demolished the wall and ticket collection booth of Sargodha stadium for holding its public rally.
The reason for bringing down the wall and ticket collection booth of the stadium was said to be the small size of the gate through which the container for building the stage could not be brought inside the venue.
The above action caused a severe damage to 32 sq ft area of Sargodha stadium.
Sargodha Administration explained that the local leadership of PTI has assured to rebuild the demolished ticket collection booth and wall of the stadium after its rally.
It is not out of place to note that seven people had been killed and dozens others injured in PTI’s previous public rally in Multan following a stampede.
The PTI’s stage in Sargodha will be almost 40 feet high. The PTI activists are exerting their maximum to fill the stadium beyond its capacity. Imran Khan and other leaders would address to the gathering.
No show: Imran Khan skips resignation scrutiny
ISLAMABAD:
As expected, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday did not appear before the National Assembly speaker for verification of his resignation from the lower house.
Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had invited PTI lawmakers in small groups to verify whether or not they had submitted their resignations voluntarily.
The process of verification began on September 25 and is expected to end on October 15. However, none of the PTI members has appeared before the speaker so far as the party demands that the speaker should invite all its lawmakers on the same day.
On August 22, some 31 members of the PTI had submitted their resignations in the speaker’s office as a protest against alleged rigging in the May 2013 general elections.
Up to 26 resignations were found valid while five of them – submitted by Mujahid Ali, Colonel (retd) Ameer Marwat, Saleemur Rehman, Junaid Akbar and Qaiser Jamal – were declared invalid as they were addressed to the PTI chairman – rather than the NA speaker.
Three PTI members, including Gulzar Khan from NA-4 Peshawar, Nasir Khattak from NA-15 Karak and Musarrat Ahmedzeb on women’s reserved seat, had not submitted their resignations. The only resignation accepted so far is that of the party’s former president Javed Hashmi.
Talking to media at the Parliament House, Speaker Ayaz Sadiq said the PTI was trying to find excuses to delay the issue of resignations. “My doors are open to them, even if they want to coming holding each other’s hand,” he said.
Imran’s address
Addressing his supporters at D-Chowk, Imran Khan said local government elections would soon be held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), adding that it would be for the first time that people of villages would be empowered.
“We will also improve the sewerage system in the entire country. We will ask the youth to clean Pakistan and the government will clean rivers and plant new trees,” he added.
Talking about the recently held joint session of the parliament, he said no one had uttered a single word on the issues of the masses. He said there was no need for metro bus projects in Islamabad and the money could have been spent on welfare of the masses.
“Nawaz Sharif knows that the moment he resigns, his corruption will be exposed,” he said while calling into question the justification of the ongoing development projects.
Claiming that both Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari had not disclosed their real assets, he said: “We will show you their declared assets [to the Election Commission of Pakistan] and the actual ones.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.
