Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi was on his way from Peshawar to Lahore, from where his party, the PTI, plans to launch a fresh street movement today.
The party has also announced to hold a public event at the Liberty Roundabout in the city today.
According to an update posted on PTI’’s official X account at 2:24pm, the KP CM had reached Bhera by then in Punjab.
PTI Punjab chief organiser Aliya Hamza Malik had earlier said that CM Afridi, his cabinet members and members of the provincial assembly would make their first stop in Punjab at Bhera during their journey to Lahore.
She had asked ticket-holders and party office-bearers from the Sargodha and Mandi Bahauddin divisions to welcome Afridi at that location.
An update shared by on PTI‘s Central Punjab account at 1pm said that CM Afridi’s convoy had reached Chakri at the time after making its way through “blockades by police ”.
Another post on the account said policemen in large numbers had been deployed at the site.
Sharing a video, where PTI supporters were seen engaging with police, the party alleged that law enforcers had tried to block the CM’s convoy from moving forward at Chakri Interchange.
Sohail Afridi on Thursday had said that the PTI would launch a street movement in line with the directives of its founder, Imran Khan, with “full force”.
Meanwhile, Malik had said that the PTI would follow party founder Imran Khan’s directives to launch a “mass protest movement” in Pakistan’s largest province by population.
The chief organiser instructed all ticket-holders, office-bearers, workers, and lawyers in the Lahore division to ensure their presence at Liberty Roundabout to welcome CM Afridi.
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