Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is likely to set up ‘khema basti’ (tent city) in Rawalpindi. While talking to media persons, PTI central leader Asad Umar has said the party is prepared to set up a khema basti (tent city) in Rawapindi. He said this when asked by a reporter about whether the party planned to stage a protest or sit-in in the garrison city on November 26, when the PTI marchers are scheduled to converge there. Umar said the next plan of action would be shared by PTI chief Imran Khan on November 26, “and if Khan asks us to make people stay there, there will be arrangements for that as well.”

Responding a question, PTI senior leader Asad Umar said there will be extraordinary security arrangements in Rawalpindi for party chief Imran Khan, which will be unlike those of past PTI rallies. In comments to reporters in Islamabad, Umar was asked about the extent of the security measures planned considering the possible threat to Imran’s life. “With regard to security you are absolutely right, we had apprehensions before which turned out to be true we were getting reports that Khan sahib’s life is in danger and you saw how the attempt on Khan sahib’s life was carried out in an organised manner, but life and death are in God’s hands.

“However, there will be very special security arrangements, which will be unlike those of past PTI rallies. “It took a lot to convince Khan, you know he’s a brave man, and he doesn’t want anything between the people and himself. Moreover, he stated that whoever will succeed General Qamar Javed Bajwa as the new army chief will have a big responsibility to steer Pakistan towards becoming the country that was envisioned by its founders. “He new army chief will have this big responsibility that in an evolutionary process, how to take Pakistan to the next phase so that it is put on the path to becoming the Pakistan envisioned by Allama Iqbal and for which Quaid-i-Azam struggled,” he said.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP