LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry alleges that the government is scaring party activists away from the Faisalabad rally by issuing security threat warning for the May 25 event.

Speaking at a press conference on Friday, he said the party would hold the rally as per schedule.

He alleged that the government was frightening PTI activists on the pretext of security concerns as a senior bureaucrat in Punjab had sent the party a letter in this respect.

Flanked by MNA Shafqat Mahmood and General Secretary Dr Yasmin Rashid, he said the government was duty bound to provide security to opposition’s rallies.

He demanded that some of the 1,257 police officials deployed for the prime minister’s protocol be spared for the security of the Faisalabad rally.

He expected that a similar letter would be sent to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is holding a rally in Faisalabad on May 28.

Published in Dawn, May 24th, 2014