Movement Started in Pakistan for the release of Imran | Movement begins for Imran’s release in Pakistan: PTI party leaders held a meeting in Lahore; Will be at peak on August 5

The opposition party in Pakistan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced a nationwide protest for the release of its founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The top party leaders reached Lahore on Saturday, from where the movement has been formally started.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur called it an official start of the movement and said that the demonstration will be taken to its peak by 5 August.

PTI acting president Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, KP CM Gandapur, and Opposition Leader of Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmed Khan reached Lahore on Saturday.

Earlier, a meeting of party leaders was held in Islamabad, in which the status of 26 MLAs suspended from the Punjab Assembly and the strategy of the movement was discussed.

PTI leaders have camped at Raiwind’s farmhouse, where a meeting was held late night on a strategy of agitation. (File photo)

CM Gandapur said- Army is running new moreshell law

CM Gandapur said that the country has been ruled by the army for a long time and is now running non-official martial law.

He said that Imran Khan has been kept in jail without any valid reason. Gandapur demanded to intensify the protests based on local issues in all provinces.

Gandapur said that

Every successful movement starts from Lahore itself, it will also be successful at a nationwide level.

Even before the protest, the Punjab Police raided the houses of PTI leaders and workers in Shahdara Mor and other areas and 5 activists were detained.

The detained workers include PTI leader Yasir Gilani. (File photo)

Imran jailed for 14 years in corruption case

A Pakistan court on 16 January sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in a corruption case. According to Dawn’s news, Imran was sentenced to 14 years and Bushra was sentenced to 7 years. Both were accused of loss of 50 billion Pakistani rupees to the national treasury.

Both of them sold billions of rupees of land of the Government of Pakistan for Bushra Bibi’s Al-Kadir Trust cheaply. Imran was arrested on 9 May 2023 in this case. After this, many important bases of the army were attacked all over the country.

Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered a case against Imran Khan (72), Bushra Bibi (50), and other 6 persons in December 2023 in the Al-Kadir Trust case. However, when this case was registered against Imran, he was already lodged in Adiala Jail in the Toshkhana case.