PTI allowed to hold Dec 25 public meeting at Bagh-e-Jinnah

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is set to stage a power show in Karachi after authorities granted the party permission to hold a public meeting at Bagh-e-Jinnah, opposite the Mazar-e-Quaid, on December 25.

The party’s senior vice-president Ali Zaidi said Chairman Imran Khan is scheduled to address the gathering to boost the PTI’s political campaign in Sindh ahead of the 2018 general elections.

He said the event would define the PTI’s political strength in the metropolis and the party had invested energy and resources in mobilising Karachi’s public. “The people of Karachi are fed up with their so-called representatives and they are with Imran Khan because they believe in PTI’s ability to bring about a change,” said Zaidi.

He lamented that Karachi had become a hub of problems because political parties with the public’s mandate cared more for their personal interests and let their voters suffer. Zaidi was speaking to the media after a meeting of the party’s city cabinet at the Insaf House and was accompanied by Khurram Sher Zaman, PTI’s Karachi general secretary.

The senior VP criticised the Pakistan Peoples Party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement -Pakistan and other parties of Karachi for failing the city and its citizens. Zaman, who is also an MPA from PS-112 (Karachi XXVI), touched upon the subject of inequitable opportunities for the youth of Sindh’s urban centres. He said the concept of merit was openly flouted by political parties as only their blue-eyed people or those who paid bribes were able to secure jobs.