Facing arrest, Imran leads election rally in Lahore.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Monday announced that PTI would hold a mammoth public gathering at Minar-i-Pakistan on March 19 (Sunday) at 2:00pm to show the 'cabal of thieves' that the entire nation was standing with him in the struggle for real indepenAdence. Addressing the charged participants of the election ralAly near Data Darbar while sitAting inside his bullet-proof vehiAcle, the PTI Chairman said that Sunday's Minar-i-Pakistan powAer show would be his sixth powAer show in the historic place in the last 12 years.

Imran Khan said that the enAtire nation would have to strugAgle together to make the dream of a 'Haqeeqi Azadi' a reality.'We will all have to struggle togethAer', he said.

The PTI's planned rally on SunAday aims to provide impetus to the party's election campaign which hit snags in the beginning owing to imposition of section 144 in the provincial metropoAlis for a couple of days. The PTI had to postpone the first election rally twice last week owing to the police crackdown on its workers.

The PTI Chairman said he would address the rally and exAplain how to steer the country out of the prevailing crises. He called on the people of Lahore to start preparing for the power show to make it a historic public gathering to give a strong mesAsage to the thieves and looters imposed on the nation through foreign conspiracy that they would leave no stone unturned to make Pakistan a real indepenA

dent country. The former prime minister stated that the 'imported government' was imposing restrictions to suppress the voices in supAport of the PTI, as they were scared of the PTI's rising popularity; hence making all attempts to run away from the polls to avoid humiliating drubbing at the hands of PTI.

He stated that everyone knew his life was in danger, but he insisted that the nation must hold accountable the thieves who have been imAposed upon the country in orAder to achieve true freedom.

'It is clear from today's ralAly why this imported governAment did not allow our preAvious rally,' he said. Paying high tribute to PTI worker Ali Bilal, also known as Zille Shah, Imran Khan vowed: 'I am sending a message on my nation's behalf to those people behind his death that I and the nation will nevAer forget this or forgive you. Until those police officials and those who tortured him are not brought to justice, we will not rest and will get them sentenced,' he added.

The PTI chairman went on to say that he was...