BAJAUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers here on Tuesday staged a rally to celebrate the party’s victory in the Punjab by-elections and called for holding general elections in the country without delay.

Scores of party activists from different areas of the district participated in the rally that started from Gatkai area of Mamond tehsil, the native town of MNA Gul Zafar Khan.

The jubilant workers, who travelled in a convoy of vehicles, chanted slogans against the federal government.

The rally turned into a public meeting after reaching the Inayat Kallay Bazaar.

MNA Zafar Khan, Dr Hamidur Rahman, Ishaq Zia and several others spoke on the occasion, and described the party’s victory in Punjab by-polls as historic. They said the win showed that the people of Punjab had endorsed the party’s narrative to make Pakistan a ‘truly independent and sovereign country’.

They said the victory showed the people of that province had ‘rejected’ the PML-N. They insisted the country’s future belonged to PTI.

The speakers declared the coalition government was incapable of pulling the country out of the deepening financial and economic crises.

They alleged the spiraling inflation and financial instability had badly exposed the ‘anti-people’ agenda of the coalition government, claiming no one would vote for the parties currently part of the “imported” government.

The speakers said holding general elections without delay was the only way forward to prevent the country from further destruction. They called for announcing the schedule for general elections in the country.

The speakers asked the party workers to start preparation for the general elections by launching people’s contact campaign in their respective areas.

Published in Dawn, July 20th, 2022