Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan on Saturday announced that his party would hold a long march on Islamabad in the last week of May.
He said that the decision was taken during PTI's core committee meeting. "I am giving this call not just to PTI workers but to the entire country," Imran said in a video message."We are giving this call because our country has been shamed via a foreign conspiracy and Pakistan's most corrupt people have been imposed upon us."
He said that 60 per cent of the cabinet members are on bail. "The one who has become the prime minister, he is being called a crime minister. They have [corruption] cases worth Rs40 billion against them in FIA and NAB," he added.
Imran Khan urged every Pakistani to prepare for bringing ‘real freedom’, adding that the process of preparation would begin on Chand Raat — on eve of Eidul Fitr.
"I want to address the youth here in particular that you have to come out on Chand Raat with flags and let the world know that Pakistanis are a lively nation," he added.
The former prime minister claimed that his long march would be the “largest gathering in the history of Pakistan”. He said, "There will be an ocean of people which will let everyone know that from this point on, no country will ever impose a corrupt gang on this nation."
He further said that all decisions about Pakistan will be made by the Pakistanis from no onwards.
Khan, a cricket star turned politician, claims that the United States was behind his ouster from pwer, an assertion that Washington denies.
On April 10, Khan became the first prime minister to be ousted from office through a no-confidence motion, following which, PML-N's Shehbaz Sharif was elected as the new premier.
Addressing a workers' convention at Aiwan-e-Iqbal in Lahore on Wednesday, the former premier had called for two million people to reach Islamabad when he gives the call.
He said that the country stood at a crucial juncture and warned that if this “imported government” succeeded, then no future prime minister would be able to counter any foreign conspiracy.
“When you go to the people, you have to tell them that an ‘imported government’ has been put in place through conspiracy. It means that now the United States will control Pakistan through these stooges and boot polishers,” he said.
PTI chief reiterated that his government was ousted because he wanted to follow an independent foreign policy that would benefit the people of Pakistan.
