‘Ro Imran Ro’: PML-N takes out anti-PTI rallies in Gujranwala

Marches started from GT Road and a large number of youth participated

GUJRANWALA: Ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) youth wing on Friday took out two separate rallies to protest against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is staging a sit-in against government in Islamabad.

The first ‘Ro Imran Ro’ rally started from GT Road and a large number of youth participated in it. The participants later gathered at Shairaanwala Bagh, where local leaders – including the PML-N’s provincial joint secretary Shoab Butt and Waleed Butt – made speeches.

They said they would not allow the PTI to hold rally on November 23 until the party guaranteed them that Imran Khan would apologise for the foul language used against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The PML-N leaders said they also would not permit women’s participation in the coming PTI rally. The PTI would also have to apologise for the exhibition of arms in its previous rally in Gujranwala, they demanded.



Talking to Daily Express, the leaders said they would not stoop to anything uncivil but did not disclose what was their strategy and said people would know it on November 23.

Meanwhile, another pro-government rally was led by the city’s president Amir Akram Butt. Speaking to the participants, he said Nawaz Sharif’s leadership was leading the country toward prosperity and that people had known the real intentions of the forces that opposed him.

“Gujranwala is a stronghold of the PML-N and the PML-N’s gentleness should not be considered its weakness,” he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 15^th, 2014.