Nov. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Hundreds of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan have maintained this Wednesday for the third consecutive day their blockades in different parts of the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, and other cities, within the framework of mobilizations to denounce his assassination attempt and demand elections anticipated.
The Islamabad Police have once again called on the federal government to extend its authorities and jurisdiction in order to remove the blockades on the road leading to the airport, dependent on the Punjab region, as well as on other key highways in the area.
For his part, Fauad Chaudhri, senior official of Jan’s party, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), has reiterated that the “long march” called by the former prime minister will finally start this Thursday, after the last-minute postponement to the protests, scheduled for Tuesday.
In this sense, he has emphasized that there will be no further postponements and has anticipated that Jan will meet “with hundreds of thousands of people” in the city of Rawalpindi, adjacent to Islamabad, according to the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’.
During the day on Monday, the former prime minister asked the Pakistani president, Arif Alvi, to “act now” to stop the “abuse of power” and has denounced “a plot to assassinate him” allegedly hatched by the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, the Minister of the Interior, Rana Sanaulá and the head of the Intelligence services.
Jan, who became the first Pakistani leader to be impeached in a no-confidence motion in April, was disqualified at the end of October by the electoral commission for failing to declare money from the sale of gifts and gifts received from international leaders. when he was in charge of the government.
