When Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced their march against Islamabad, they cut off cellular service across Punjab.
Chief Minister Punjab Hamza Shehbaz, according to media sources, had a high-level meeting with law enforcement agencies to discuss actions taken to halt the long march on Tuesday.
Mobile phone services will be shut off at 350 locations across Punjab, including 20 Lahore locations, according to the chief minister of Punjab.
Mobile phone services will be shut off in certain areas, according to sources.
A big convoy from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would go to Islamabad on Wednesday, May 25th, according to Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
At a news conference in Peshawar, the PTI leader urged the people to unite against the “imported administration,” which he says was “installed” as part of a US-backed regime-change plan. He called on Pakistanis to demonstrate in large numbers.
In response to the cruel police action against PTI leaders and workers in Punjab, Imran Khan asked the judiciary and military establishment to play their responsibilities and prevent the government from turning PTI’s peaceful long march into a murderous one.
Comments come a day after Punjab started a province-wide crackdown and conducted over 1,200 raids to arrest PTI workers and leadership ahead of the planned march.
Hammad Azhar, Usman Dar Malik, Ishtiaq Mian Zafar, Waleed Iqbal, Yasir Gillani, Firdous Awan, Sadia Sohail, Chaudhry Ikhlaq, and many more PTI leaders were targeted in the raids.
In addition, the Rawalpindi police conducted many searches on Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, but he was never apprehended.