Accountability rally in Lahore on Sep 3: PTI

Khan says the agitation would continue until Prime Minister Sharif responds to Panama Papers allegations against him

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said on Sunday the party’s accountability movement would reach Lahore on September 3 in the form of a rally from Shahdara to Charing Cross.

Addressing party workers, he said he would announce party’s future strategy at Charing Cross. Khan also visited the family of Mirza Tanvir, a PTI worker who was killed last week.

Khan said the PTI would invite all parties to the rally which he said would be peaceful. He called for a Rangers operation in the Walled City where three PTI workers, including Mirza, had been killed over the year.

Khan said the agitation would continue until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif responded to Panama Papers allegations against him and his family. He announced that the PTI would file on Monday (today) a petition against the prime minister in the Supreme Court.

He accused the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz-led government of destroying state institutions. He said there would be no corruption if the National Accountability Bureau and the Federal Board of Revenue operated effectively.

The PTI chief said the party stood in solidarity with the Pakistan Awami Tehreek in demanding justice over the 2014 violence in Model Town. He said Punjab Police had become a PML-N militant wing.

He accused MNA Hamza Shahbaz of having harassed Mirza Tanvir.

Tanvir had been the complainant in the murder case of his two brothers who were killed during local government elections in Lahore last year.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2016.