Former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan has announced anti-government rallies in all major cities across the country on July 2, urging public to break the ‘barrier of fear’.
The former premier, while addressing a press conference at his Bani Gala residence today, said that he would address the rally for Rawalpindi and Islamabad residents. He told the party leaders to organise rallies in their respective cities, terming it necessary for the ‘future generations’.
He said that the “super tax” imposed by the incumbent government would add to already rising inflation in the country and increase the corporate tax to 40 per cent, which is at 25 per cent in India and Bangladesh at present.
He predicted that the incumbent government would again hike the prices of petroleum products and burden the common man, adding that the coalition government is only worried about how they could achieve an “NRO-II”.
Talking about the recent amendments to the NAB law, he said: “The PTI has moved the Supreme Court against the amendments in the NAB law…. The looters have protected their Rs1,100 billion via NAB amendments. They have given themselves a clean chit through the reforms.”
He further said that it is his party’s right to organise anti-government rallies and called out the government for its action against his party workers during the previous “Haqeeqi Azadi March”.
Looks like this man is not done yet. Him and his backers are going to use the common people as cannon fodder to achieve their own ambitions. I hope the people of Pakistan give it a good thought before they jump on to everything that this anarchist asks them to do.
IK is now carrying a bouquet of narratives. Unfortunately all flowers once plucked look attractive albeit perish soon due to lacking any connection to its roots. It is getting difficult for him to keep rebuilding a momentum and inflation scaremongering is the new mantra. But monarchy can tell who can grow the pie for them and who could not.
However, he did get a die hard revolutionary following from the retired service men that could have yielded results but he has shied away from an all out revolt against the monarchy and choses to threaten and appease it in equal measures to the dismay of his revolutionary supporters while some have had their pensions stopped. Interestingly, knowingly or unknowingly retired servicemen are attacking their benefactors head on, not realising that once they shatter the monarchy’s image the poor masses will attack the beneficiaries of monarchy as well.