Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken notice of the roadblocks erected by authorities to regulate rallies held by opposition parties across the country to observe ‘black day’ on July 25, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry revealed on Friday.
“PM took notice of road blocks that were put up for Opposition jalsas. He has directed the authorities that Opposition should be free to hold peaceful rallies and protests as it will only expose the Opposition as they hold no street power and people of Pakistan are sick of them,” the minister posted on his Twitter handle.
To mark the one-year anniversary of the 2018 general election that they believed had been rigged to bring the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf into power, the opposition parties had on Thursday observed ‘black day’ by holding public gatherings in the four provincial capitals. Speaking at different public meetings, the leadership of the main opposition parties – the PML-N and PPP – had termed the ‘black day’ the beginning of the end of the PTI government. They had also vowed to continue their struggle to seek mid-term elections in the country at the earliest to ‘restore democracy in a real sense and get rid of inefficient rulers’.
