LAHORE: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is just not backing down from holding a protest at Islamabad’s D-Chowk amid visits of overseas dignitaries, Punjab Minister for Info Azma Bokhari stated the PTI must be handled as a terrorist entity because it was not a political social gathering.
The Punjab minister stated this in an interview with Geo Information programme ‘Geo Pakistan’ on Friday.
To a question, Bokhari stated she heard Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s presser a day in the past and he or she believed he wouldn’t let the PTI activists enter Islamabad.
The inside minister on Thursday warned the PTI in opposition to holding the general public gathering as visits of overseas dignitaries have been deliberate in Islamabad, together with the Malaysian prime minister.
Amid its anti-government marketing campaign, the previous ruling social gathering — based by Imran Khan — is holding protests for the “independence” of the judiciary and the discharge of the previous prime minister from jail.
The protest will coincide with the ultimate day of the Malaysian prime minister’s go to to Pakistan and the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit . The authorities have already enforced Part 144 and “the Peaceable Meeting and Public Order Act, 2024”, regulating holding of public assemblies at sure locations in Islamabad.
“The PTI’s high management ought to assessment its protest name […] Nobody will likely be allowed for an onrush on Islamabad,” the safety czar stated whereas addressing a presser together with officers of the federal police.
In the meantime, the provincial info minister the PTI had at all times labored in opposition to Pakistan’s improvement.
“The nation is progressing and inflation is dropping, however they can’t sit with peace,” she stated.
She blamed PTI of utilizing teargas shelling on police officers throughout final protest, including that they’d not have been stopped in the event that they held peaceable protest. However they got here for creating anarchy, she maintained.
“The folks of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ought to ask them why they don’t do work. You can’t use public sources for vandalism,” she stated.
Alternatively, she stated Punjab was peaceable and other people have been busy of their day by day routine works. Because the Punjab chief minister was doing her job, the residents of the province had little interest in collaborating within the demonstration, she added.