Challenges rivals to show of strength, dismisses claims of PTI's waning influence in Punjab
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi. Photo: X
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Saturday announced that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would hold a public rally at Minar-e-Pakistan on Sunday (today), turning a tightly-controlled Lahore visit into a challenge to an attempt to fence him in politically.
The announcement came on the second day of his stay, after Afridi managed to reach Liberty Roundabout late Friday night but was unable to deliver a planned address when a heavy police contingent sealed off all access routes, erecting pickets and effectively choking off the gathering.
The PTI leader brushed aside claims that the party's political footprint in the province has diminished and deplored the "occupying government's attitude t
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