PTI Karachi leaders pay tribute to party founder, workers on Foundation Day

Although the coronavirus lockdown prevented the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from organising events in Karachi to mark the party’s 24th Foundation Day on April 25 on Saturday, PTI leaders of the city in a statement congratulated the prime minister, PTI’s founding members and workers on the day, saying that they were the PTI workers who“took Imran Khan's message to every village and remote area”.

Firdous Shamin Naqvi, the party’s central leader and opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly, said “when they started this journey 24 years ago, the goal was and is to make Pakistan a model modern Islamic state.”

He said the PTI and its founder Imran Khan are now in power and working towards achieving the party’s goals. He added that the party would achieve all its goals in the next 10 years.

“The PTI has convinced the country’s youth [to join] politics,” he said. Naqvi also paid homage to the party workers who lost their lives for the cause of the party.

PTI Karachi President and MPA Khurrum Sher Zaman in his statement on the PTI’s 24th Foundation Day praised the leadership of the party founder and his companions.

“The struggle of Imran Khan has now materialised,” Zaman said, adding that under the leadership of the prime minister, Pakistan would become a welfare state like Madina. He lauded the efforts of every wing of the PTI that helped it achieve its goals. “We have limited our activities due to COVID-19, and dedicate our foundation day to those party workers who were martyred or lost their lives,” he said. “On this day, we will reaffirm resolve to play our role in the progress of the country and will strive hard to achieve our milestones”. The PTI was formed by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in Lahore on April 25, 1996.