Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) members staged protests outside Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) offices in different cities on Tuesday, condemning the alleged biased conduct of Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja.
Television footage showed demonstrations were held in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Gujrat and Faisalabad, among other cities.
Multan:
Heavy police contingent was deployed in the offices of Deputy Election Commission on Tuesday to protect the life and property of the ECP. Some activists of PTI mostly women staged a demonstration in front of offices of election commission in Multan to press the Chief Election commission to step down because he is allegedly partial and biased.Participants shouted slogans "Imported Govt unacceptable"The demo was led by Khalid Javed Waraich and Sabeen Gul-MPA\
Karachi
Police were deployed outside the ECP office in Karachi ahead of the protest and three mobile vans were also present at the site as part of security arrangements.
According to a statement issued by PTI spokesperson Saddam Kumbhar, Opposition Leader in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh and other party leaders, including Firdous Shamim Naqvi, Bilal Ghaffar, Aftab Siddiqui, Raja Azhar and Saifur Rehman, were among the demonstrators. The statement said Sheikh addressed the protesters on the occasion, saying: "We are here to make the shameless feel some shame."
Without naming anyone, he added, "You were the election commission. Since when did you become the corruption commission."
The PTI leader called the present times "black days", further dubbing the ECP the "patron of turncoats".
Last night, the PTI had also taken out a bike rally in port city against the incumbent coalition government.
Sharing a video of the rally on social media, PTI leader and former human rights minister Shireen Mazari tweeted: "Motorbike rally in Karachi last night against imported govt brought in through [the] US regime change conspiracy aided by local abettors. Our Movement continues — the ppl have risen!"
