PTI long march: Imran Khan ends sit-in, gives six-day ultimatum for election date

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan announced an end to the sit-in and gave a six-day ultimatum to the government for fresh elections date and the assembly’s dissolution.

Addressing the participants of the long march at Jinnah Avenue, Imran Khan said that if the imported government did not announce new elections and dissolve the assembly within six days, he would reach Islamabad next time with 3 million people.

The PTI chairman said, “I have reached this container in 30 hours, but when I came here and saw the situation, I understood that the government wants us to fight our police. I had decided that I would not leave when the imported government would not give an election date. But the situation we have seen in the last 24 hours shows that the government wants us to fight our own police.”

“I have seen the nation free from fear today. I want to ask the Supreme Court (SC) what crime we were committing,” he said. “Which peaceful country restricts people from protests? The judges of the Supreme Court have a great responsibility. Yesterday, the judiciary took notice of the imported government’s tactics against the independence march. I pay tribute to the Supreme Court.”

“More than half of the cabinet is on bail. The person who was made the prime minister was to be indicted. The nation will never allow a criminal government to function. The nation will never accept a government imposed under an American conspiracy. The nation agrees that it will never accept an imported government.”

“Three of our workers were martyred in Karachi. Two of our workers were martyred after falling from a container on Ravi Bridge. Some of our people are still imprisoned.”

“It is being said that without begging, without borrowing the country will not move, when the nation is in fear it is easily enslaved, it is being claimed that nobody can come into power without the support of America.”

Imran Khan said, “I always invite families to meetings and processions and, families have fully participated in today’s protest. Our movement for real freedom includes women and children. I especially salute the women of my nation,” he said. “We have not come to divide the country but to build the nation.”

News360 sources said that the PTI chairman announced to end of the sit-in on the assurance of the establishment as it was holding talks between the government and the PTI.

Sources added that even before March 26, the establishment had asked Imran Khan to dissolve the assembly and asked the opposition to withdraw its no-confidence motion.

Sources said that Imran Khan and the opposition refused to accept the mediation of the establishment because neither Imran Khan was ready to dissolve the assembly nor the opposition was ready to withdraw its no-confidence motion.