ISLAMABAD: PTI Central Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram, who is also organiser of the party’s farmers wing, has announced that the party will launch a three-pronged movement to win freedom against the “exploitative system” and anti-agricultural policies of the government.

Mr Akram announced the launch of the movement after chairing a meeting of PTI farmers’ wing. He said the party would also launch a countrywide tree plantation campaign during the monsoon season as directed by former prime minister and PTI founding chairman Imran Khan.

While informing the media about the decisions taken at the meeting, PTI farmers’ wing information secretary Khalid Nawaz Sudhraich said that district-level office-bearers of the wing and representatives of farmers’ organisations attended the meeting.

He said the British rule on the country was over on August 14, 1947, but the mindset and the system that exploited the people during their rule still persisted.

“The three-pronged move­ment’s objectives set by the meeting included release of Imran Khan from detention, abolishing anti-agriculture policies of the government, and conducting large-scale tree plantation drive during the current monsoon season,” he said.

Mr Sudhraich said that PTI farmers wing and its affiliated organisations were asked to participate in the movement seeking Imran’s release from jail on the Independence Day and continue the struggle for the rule of law and supremacy of the Constitution in the country.

Published in Dawn, July 21st, 2025

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