PM contempt: PTI to launch Mashaal Tsunami

Party worker­s will walk to chief justic­e's house to pay tribut­e today, Imran Khan to lead rally tomorr­ow.


Zahid Gishkori May 05, 2012
PM contempt: PTI to launch Mashaal Tsunami

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all set to launch its ‘Mashaal Tsunami’ in an attempt to force the government to implement the Supreme Court’s orders regarding Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s conviction in a contempt case. The campaign will kick off with a walk in favour of the judiciary in Islamabad on Saturday.

Party workers started will walk from Mr Books Super Market to the official residency of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, PTI leaders told The Express Tribune, adding that the campaign will officially start at 6:30pm today.

PTI Women Wing President Fauzia Kasuri and party leader Sardar Azhar Tariq will lead the rally.

They will ‘pay tribute to the Chief Justice of Pakistan on taking bold steps for the supremacy of justice in Pakistan’.

The party will stage a big march on Sunday, which will move from China Chowk to D Chowk. PTI Chairman Imran Khan will lead the rally.

“It will be a big show to show solidarity with the Supreme Court of Pakistan,” said PTI Information Secretary Shafqat Mehmood.

PTI leaders will address the participants around evening on Sunday, he added.

The party is expecting tens of thousands of people to attend the march.

Gilani had earlier been convicted in a contempt case by the Supreme Court after he refused to write letters to Swiss authorities asking them to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. Opposition and other political parties have since then demanded that Gilani step down as prime minister.

COMMENTS (53)

shahid sarwar | 12 years ago | Reply

If PTI is serious in striking a different note in Pakistan's current political arena, there is a need to introduce some sanity in the way our leaders stage demonstrations and protest rallies. First, political gatherings must not be held at busy market places, thoroughfares, highways and rushy city streets. Such gatherings should be held at such open places where there is no traffic, no rush of commuters and, of course, no ambulances hurrying to hospitals. Decondly, the demonstrators should be educated so as to show discipline and decorum in their demonstrations. Our public behaviour should bear some resemblance with that of the poligically mature nations of the world.

J Miandad | 12 years ago | Reply

If they can get 100,000 people on the streets of islamabad, they can topple the government.

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