Hundreds of supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Jan have maintained their blockades for the third consecutive day on Wednesday at different points in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, and other cities, as part of mobilizations to denounce his assassination attempt and demand early elections.
The Islamabad Police has again asked the federal government to extend its authorities and jurisdiction to remove the blockades on the road leading to the airport, under the Punjab region, as well as on other key highways in the area.
Meanwhile, Fauad Chaudhri, a senior official of Jan’s party, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI), reiterated that the «long march» called by the former prime minister will finally start this Thursday, after the last-minute postponement of the protests, scheduled for Tuesday.
In this sense, he has emphasized that there will be no new postponements and has advanced that Jan will meet «with hundreds of thousands of people» in the city of Rawalpindi, adjacent to Islamabad, according to the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’.
During the day on Monday, the former prime minister asked the Pakistani president, Arif Alvi, to «act now» to stop the «abuse of power» and denounced «a plot to assassinate him» plotted allegedly by the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, the interior minister, Rana Sanaullah and the head of the intelligence services.
Jan, who in April became the first Pakistani president to be ousted in a no-confidence motion, was disqualified at the end of October by the electoral commission for not having declared the money from the sale of gifts and presents received from international leaders when he was at the head of the government.
