PTI Youth Wing to hold bike rally for Khan's release

PESHAWAR: President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Youth Wing District Peshawar, Shahzeb Khan, has said that the processions and rallies held only in the local areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa cannot help get Imran Khan released.

A long-term strategy has to be announced and similar processions and rallies should also be organized in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.

He said this while addressing a press conference arranged at Peshawar Press Club on Saturday. Along with him were the other members of the Youth Wing including Regional President Asif Khan Bangash, District General Secretary Abrar Ahmed Malik Jan, members from the tehsils of Peshawar and members from the family of Bushra Bibi.

Shahzeb Khan said that PTI Youth Wing would organize a historic bike rally starting from Namak Mandi, Peshawar, on August 3 in support of Imran Khan. Thousands of young persons are expected to join the rally.

He said that three years have elapsed after the government wrongfully locked up Imran Khan, who has made an immortal history of determination, bravery and courage. The provincial government, according to him, is unaware of the disease which Khan is suffering from.

While the government officials keep saying that there is a problem in eyes, the members of Bushra Bibi's family say that Khan is suffering from Parkinson's. However, the priorities of the people reaping the benefits of power have changed.

Khan is facing state oppression and injustice and is enduring imprisonment for the better future of Pakistan, Shahzeb said. Yet certain elements within the party do not want his release. He alleged that the provincial government has become so weak that sometimes Maulana Fazlur Rehman comes to its rescue and at other times Governor Faisal Karim Kundi steps into the field to defend it.

The Youth Wing leader requested the party leadership to turn the August 5 rally into a continuous series of processions across the local areas of K-P and to announce a permanent course of action.

The people voted for PTI because of its ideology, he stressed, and organisational and administrative matters should be kept separate. On one hand the public must be delivered, and on the other a strong movement for Khan's release must be launched.