KARACHI: The Sindh chapter president of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Nadir Akmal Khan Laghari, has said that the government has conceded defeat and is so afraid of the people that it resorted to dilly-dallying tactics in providing them a special train to travel to Rawalpindi from Karachi for which the party had applied 10 days back.

Mr Laghari, who was speaking at the party workers’ convention at the PTI provincial secretariat here on Monday, said attempts by the opponents to block the ‘freedom march’ and check the people’s ‘tsunami’ were bound to fail.

He said the caravans on vehicles from Sindh would start their journey in Karachi which would cross the Sindh border and if they were stopped on the Punjab side, the government would be responsible for the situation.

He said the frightened rulers could not change the vision of the people by their negative tactics as now the nation was prepared to usher a change in the country. Mr Laghari said the caravans on foot and bicycles would start their journey in the interior of Sindh on Aug 6 to join in the ‘freedom march’.

Karachi PTI president Najeeb Haroon said the people had rejected ‘rigged elections’.

PTI parliamentary party leader in the Sindh Assembly Samar Ali Khan said the people and workers of the PTI would take part in the march on a self-help basis.

MPA Khurram Sherzaman said he hoped the Sindh government would not create any obstacle in the way of their march.

PTI leader Subhan Ali Sahil also spoke.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2014