Ranjha ranjha kehndi ni mein ...: PTI leader

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday said the rally of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) equalled to intimidation of the judiciary and defence institutions.

PTI’s senior leader MNA Asad Umar made an interesting comment on ex-premier Nawaz Sharif’s journey via the GT Road on board a container and said, “ranjha ranjha kehndi ni mein te apay ranjha hoi.”

“Container kay khilaf taqreerain kartay kartay khud container par charh gaye,” Asad Umar said in his messages on social media.  He wrote the administration, which has not allowed people to demand basic rights on the pretext of Section 144, shut down Islamabad to facilitate the royal family. 

“If you want to see machinery of Pakistan working as darbaris for Shahi khandan instead of serving the state just to see the tamasha in Islamabad today,” he said.

Meanwhile, PTI chairman Imran Khan discussed with Dr Yasmin Rashid, the party candidate for NA-120 bye-election to be held on September 17, the ongoing campaign for the electoral bout. The PTI secretary general Jehangir Tareen and information secretary Shafqat Mehmood were also present on the occasion.

Imran said that he would visit the constituency soon to address the party workers convention of NA-120, Lahore. The PTI chairman and other senior party leaders strongly condemned the act of terrorism in Upper Dir, which claimed lives of four military men, including a Major. He said those sacrificing lives for the defence and security of the motherland were the national heroes.

Imran paid tributes to those, who had offered supreme sacrifices during the ongoing war against the menace of terrorism. He also sympathised with the families of the martyred military men and condoled with them their martyrdom. 

Meanwhile, the PTI also strongly condemned the alleged incident of manhandling of media persons during the PML-N rally by the party’s workers. The PTI spokesperson called this incident a ploy to trigger unrest.