PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat has said he will lead Saturday’s protest from Islamabad’s F9 park to the National Press Club.

“If the rulers want to inflict violence upon us then let me tell them one thing, I take full responsibility that if anyone wants to spread discord in Islamabad then we will ourselves catch them and hand them over to authorities.”

He said the protest would remain peaceful, warning that if the police clamped down it then the movement would continue until “the results are not changed”.

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