LAHORE: The PTI’s political committee announced on Wednesday that it would oppose the constitutional amendments and called for nationwide protests on Friday (tomorrow) against the package and party founder Imran Khan’s incarceration.

“All regional and local organisations are instructed to hold vigorous but peaceful protests at all district headquarters after Friday prayers. Total agreement not to accept any attempt by the government to distort the Constitution through the constitutional amendment,” the party said.

Meanwhile, Meher Bano Qureshi, daughter of incarcerated PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, tweeted that her sister-in-law — the wife of MNA Zain Qureshi — “has been picked up from near our home by masked men in plain clothes and multiple cars”.

She added, “Two cars blocked her car and took her away forcefully. They have not been able to break us for the last year and a half despite all kinds of threats and are now resorting to such low-level tactics.”

Hammad Azhar, PTI’s Punjab chapter president, strongly reacted to the alleged abduction of Zain Qureshi’s wife by the “fascist regime” and urged the nation to hold protests across the country after Friday prayers.

“The time has come to save this country, to restore the supremacy of the rule of law and Constitution,” he said in a video message. “No Pakistani should be in their homes after Friday prayers.”

Published in Dawn, October 17th, 2024