Ending the uncertainty across the whereabouts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Pakistan Tehrkee-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s spouse Bushra Bibi, senior PTI chief Taimur Saleem Khan has mentioned that they reached KP Meeting Speaker Babar Saleem Swati’s residence.
Taimur additionally confirmed that each the KP CM and former first woman have been additionally accompanied by Nationwide Meeting Opposition Chief Omar Ayub. Sources say that the PTI leaders spent the evening on the Circuit Home in Mansehra after fleeing the federal capital.
The event comes after Maryam Riaz Wattoo, Bushra’s sister, expressed issues over the doable abduction of the previous first woman.
In a video assertion, Wattoo shared her apprehensions, saying that conflicting reviews have emerged about her sister’s whereabouts and remarked: “Some folks declare Bushra [Bibi] has been arrested, whereas others counsel she has reached KP. It appears as if she has been kidnapped.”
The video assertion got here after the Khan-founded social gathering known as off its “do-or-die” protest within the federal capital following a midnight crackdown by regulation enforcement businesses, which succeeded in dispersing the PTI staff who had reached Islamabad from numerous components of the nation.
“In mild of the federal government’s brutality and plans to show the federal capital right into a ‘slaughterhouse’ for unarmed residents, we’re asserting the short-term suspension of our peaceable protest,” learn the assertion issued by the social gathering’s central media cell.
The previous ruling social gathering has mentioned that it could announce the longer term plan of action within the mild of steering from the incarcerated social gathering founder.
It has additionally claimed that eight of its staff have been martyred which embody Anis Shehzad Satti, Malik Mubeen Aurangzeb, Abdul Qadir, Malik Safdar Ali, Ahmed Wali, Muhammad Ilyas, and Abdul Rashid.
Expressing her worries, Wattoo added that if Bushra Bibi have been certainly in KP and protected, she would have contacted her household.
She additionally highlighted that Bushra Bibi had clarified earlier that solely the social gathering founder holds the precise to name off the continued sit-in, not the PTI’s political committee.
Bushra’s sister additionally emphasised that the PTI sit-in had gained important traction and asserted that Bushra would by no means abandon Khan or flee below such circumstances.
In an earlier assertion, Maryam talked about that Bushra Bibi was nonetheless in Islamabad, standing agency regardless of the circumstances.
Scenario bettering
A number of key roads of the nation, which skilled extreme commuting restrictions in as a consequence of highway blocks and different preventive measures taken by the federal government to discourage PTI staff’ march, have now been opened.
All motorways have been reopened for visitors after 4 days, in response to motorway authorities.
The Islamabad to Lahore motorway (M-2) is now accessible, bringing reduction to commuters.
Equally, the Lahore-Sialkot motorway has additionally been restored to be used, easing connectivity within the area.
Along with these, motorways M-3, M-4, and M-5 have been reopened, enabling smoother transportation throughout numerous components of the nation.
The resumption of providers is anticipated to considerably facilitate each day by day travellers and long-distance commuters.
Moreover, the life in Islamabad, which was the epicentre of the PTI protest and changed into a battleground as a consequence of clashed between the social gathering staff and LEAs, has additionally began coming again to regular following days-long turmoil.