NEW YORK: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has finalized plans to hold protests in America, Canada and the capitals of different countries in Europe against crackdowns on the party and human rights violations in Pakistan.
The PTI also plans to take lawmakers and human rights defender to Pakistan to highlight the state oppression on the workers and leaders of the PTI.
In this regard, a big rally was held outside the UN headquarters in New York in which the participants chanted slogans against the establishment in Pakistan and in favour of the PTI chairman Imran Khan.
Addressing the protesters, PTI New York leader Dr Nasir Shahid said protests were held across the world against the excesses and human rights violations during the crackdown on PTI leaders and workers. Now overseas Pakistanis have decided to go to Pakistan and raise voice against the injustices and human rights violations there.
He said the Pakistanis would also take US lawmakers, mediapersons and rights defenders to Pakistan so that the rights violations could be highlighted in detail to the international community.
This would also help in breaking the sense of fear among the people of Pakistan so that they could openly struggle to achieve their fundamental political and constitutional rights, he added.
He said on the occasion of the overseas Pakistani delegation’s visit to Pakistan, protest rallies would be held at 30 places in the USA and 10 places each in Canada and Europe.
Other speakers at the rally said that overseas Pakistanis were perturbed over the situation in Pakistan.
They said the May 9 incidents were deplorable but making these as an excuse to crack down in the political party and its rank and file aimed at removing them from the political scene was not only illegal but also detrimental for democracy in Pakistan.
But the planners and executors of these illegal acts were living in a fool’s paradise if they think that they would hoodwink the masses of Pakistan. State institutions would remain strong if they have the support of the public, the speakers said.
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