Daily Times

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan will lead his workers’ rally from The Mall to Data Darbar, while the Pakistan People’s Party will also hold a public meeting at 8pm at Mozang Chungi today (Thursday) to garner support for their respective candidates for the NA-120 by-election.

According to sources, the PTI’s rally will start from Zaman Park and, crossing The Mall, will reach Data Darbar, as the entire route of the rally falls in the NA-120 constituency where by-elections are scheduled for September 17.

PTI sources said that the vice president of the party, MPA Shoaib Siddiqui, had already filed an application to the district administration and the city police regarding security arrangements for Imran Khan on the route.

Meanwhile, PTI candidate for NA-120 Dr Yasmin Rashid continued her door-to-door campaign on Wednesday. On her complaint to the Election Commission of Pakistan against the Pakistan Television (PTV) for giving extraordinary coverage to Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s campaign, the PTV general manager has offered in his reply to the ECP that she should apply for her election coverage in the constituency too.

The PTI candidate said in her complaint to the ECP the other day that the PTV was running on public resources so any private person like Maryam Nawaz Sharif should not be obliged for extraordinary publicity. She strongly objected over the hours-long coverage of a person named in the Panama Papers case.

Meanwhile, the Pakistan People’s Party will also show its political muscles during today’s public meeting at 8pm at Mozang Chungi near Jail Road, the same place where PTI’s Imran Khan held a rally some days ago in connection with the by-election campaign.

Published in Daily Times, September 14^th 2017.