In a press conference, the PTI chairman said: "My march will be held in October if the government does not announce the date for the next general election." The PTI chief warned the government that scores of people will be out on the streets as he would give a call to the nation for the anti-government march. Khan said he was still cutting the government some slack so that they could decide on it. "I am actually giving them some more time before embarking on a long march protest." "[Interior Minister] Rana Sanaullah won't even know what hit him, such is my preparation," Khan warned the top minister, who claimed that the government's preparation was 10 times more as compared to May 25.

Khan's press conference came after his party won Sunday's by-election by a major margin. The PTI chief won six of the eight National Assembly seats up for grabs and his party added two more to their seat count in the Punjab Assembly. But not completely satisfied with the results, Khan alleged that the elections were held in the constituencies where PTI was weak and the ruling coalition fielded joint candidates to ensure his party's defeat. He said that the government did not wish to hold elections and used floods as an excuse.

"They said that there were floods. But in the constituencies where elections were held, floods did not have an effect there." Khan claimed that he lost Karachi's Malir by-polls to a PPP candidate — Abdul Hakeem Baloch — as it was rigged. “Sindh’s election commissioner was on the provincial government’s payroll. We reject [Malir's] by-election and demand re-election. The PPP swung the polls to their advantage through indiscriminate rigging," Khan alleged.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP