PTI protests founder chairman's conviction

Party supporters rally in K-P, term verdicts political revenge

PESHAWAR:

Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) staged protests in Peshawar and other cities of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday against the conviction of the party's founding chairman and his wife, Bushra Bibi.

In Peshawar, demonstrators gathered at the Assembly Chowk, where senior PTI leaders, including Kamran Bangash, Fazl-e-Elahi, MNA Shandana Gulzar, and Irfan Saleem, addressed the crowd. Speakers condemned the court verdicts, claiming the founder chairman and his wife were being targeted for political revenge and that the judiciary was failing to deliver fair justice.

Protesters also alleged that the founder chairman has been denied access to meet the Chief Minister and his family, and that he has been isolated, while the party itself is being pressured through such decisions.

Speakers warned that the party could not be silenced by these measures. They said the founder chairman had directed PTI workers to take to the streets, and party activists would mobilize wherever the leadership issued orders.

The protests were part of a broader campaign by PTI to rally public support and express dissent over what it described as politically motivated judicial actions.