Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders failed to attract public, particularly in Punjab, during August 5 protest demonstrations
The protests were held under FreeImranKhan slogan. Incarcerated former prime minister and PTI founder chairman Imran Khan had issued directions for the launch of protest movement for restoration of democracy in Pakistan. However, the party leaders could not hold any impressive show of strength, though there were symbolic gatherings in different cities.
Protests:
PTI said Punjab Police detailed hundreds of party leaders and workers in Lahore and other cities ahead of August 5. Media reported arrests of the workers of the opposition party in Karachi and parts of Sindh. PTI Balochistan President Dawood Shah Kakar, however, led protest rally in Quetta. The central leadership had authorised the PTI’s Punjab, KP, Sindh and Balochistan chapters to devise plans for protests.
PTI social media handles posted videos and images of impressive gatherings in Rawalpindi and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Chief Minister KP Ali Amin Gandapur led a rally in Peshawar. PTI Azad Kashmir president Abdul Qayyum Niazi, who was arrested a day before the protest day and later released on the same night led the rally in AJK.
Reasons:
But, the movement at its inception was not impressive at all, believe independent observes let alone the government claims.
State repression was the key hurdle in way of protests, says a journalist from Islamabad, Abdul Sattar Ch. Establishment, he adds, is so far seems unwilling to give any room to PTI. “Imran Khan is not ready for any compromise with the country’s powerful military establishment.”
On the other hand, the public has started releasing that the PTI leaders who were elected in the name of Imran Khan are heavily compromised. “People have no faith in them but they still love Imran Khan,” says another analysts Anwar Khan from Lahore. According to different reports, the former prime minister enjoys 75 percent public support in Pakistan.
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