PTI announces to block Islamabad-Peshawar M1 Motorway

Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Thursday closed the Motorway Interchange M-1 for all kinds of traffic amid renewed protest strategy.
The party has changed its protest strategy against assassination attempt on party chairman Imran Khan. PTI has announced to close the M-1 Motorway Interchange. The Tehreek-e-Insaaf workers under the leadership of former special assistant Zulfi Bukhari staged a protest demonstration at the M-1 Motorway Islamabad Toll Plaza. The protesters blocked the roads to and from Islamabad on the highway.
On the occasion, Zulfi Bukhari said that the Motorway Interchange will remain close until order of the former prime minister and vehicles from Lahore and Peshawar wouldn’t be allowed to enter Islamabad through Motorway. He said simultaneous sit-in will continue at Fateh Jang Road and Motorway M-1 Interchange.
Under the leadership of Bukhari, the four-day sit-in is continuing at the site of the National Highway Fateh Jang.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Zulfi Bukhari-led sit-in was continued for four consecutive days at Fatehjang national highway.
Earlier today, Imran Khan addressed the PTI workers after the party’s long march resumed its journey to Islamabad from Wazirabad today.
The PTI long march activities were postponed for a few days after an assassination attempt on Imran Khan in which more than a dozen of leaders and workers got injured.
The PTI chief praised the participants of the long march in Wazirabad and said that Moazzam’s sacrifice saved the lives of other people who got wounded in the gun attack. “We will care for Moazzam’s children for their whole life.”
“Ibtisam is a hero and I want to salute him,” he praised the PTI worker who caught the attacker.
Imran Khan said it was not an accident but an assassination plot prepared in September.
He added that the country could not be considered as an independent state until the supremacy of law.
The PTI chief said that the long march will be intensified after the incident. He requested the CJP to look into the incidents including the non-registration of the FIR, Azam Swati’s harassment and Arshad Sharif’s killing.
Imran Khan vowed to continue struggling against corruption until his last breath. He announced that he will soon welcome the convoys of the PTI marchers in Rawalpindi. NNI