Daily Times

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has changed the schedule of its long march for a third time, announcing that the march would resume on Thursday from Wazirabad. PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while speaking to workers at Zaman Park, Lahore, announced that the party’s long march will be resumed on Thursday (November 10). PTI leader Faisal Javed in a tweet also announced that the party’s long march will resume on November 10, Thursday at 2pm from Wazirabad. PTI’s Secretary-General Asad Umar said he will participate in the long march with party’s vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi and other colleagues in Wazirabad on Thursday. “Shah Sahab [Qureshi] will lead the long march on GT Road and I will lead the march from Faisalabad Division,” he said in a tweet. Umar in another tweet said he will begin march from Toba Tek Singh which will pass through Jhang, Faisalabad, Jaranwala, Chiniot and Sargodha. PTI leader Ali Amin Gandapur will lead caravan from the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa while K-P Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and Murad Saeed will lead the protesters from the Malakand region. Senior PTI leader Pervez Khattak will lead the protest rally from Peshawar and Hazara division, he added. Rawalpindi’s district administration has announced the closure of educational institutions in light of the law and order situation amid PTI’s protests. The educational institutions will remain closed on November 8-9, a notification said.