PTI approaches local administrations for permission to hold sit-in at Faizabad.

RAWALPINDI -- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Rawalpindi and Islamabad chapters have submitted separate applications to the respective district administrations for its public gathering on Nov 26.

In an application to Rawalpindi's Deputy Commissioner Shoaib Ali, PTI Rawalpindi president Wasiq Qayyum Abbasi said the party had decided to organise a peaceful public gathering or a sit-in in connection with its 'Haqeeqi Azadi March' at Faizabad on Murree Road on Nov 26.

He said former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan would lead the march or sit-in and a large number of people were expected to participate in it. Therefore, a stage and other event/festivity equipment are being installed at the venue, it added.

He requested the district administration to undertake necessary measures in terms of provision of the venue, specialised security and others.

A senior PTI leader in Rawalpindi told Dawn that the party did not want to stage a sit-in at Faizabad but was going to hold a public gathering there. He said earlier there was a plan to stage a sit-in at Faizabad, Tarnol and Rawat but later the plan was changed.

On the other hand, PTI's former MPA Arif Abbasi said Imran Khan would lead the rally from Kutchery Chowk to Faizabad via Murree Road.

He said party leaders met at Imran Khan's Zaman Park residence on Monday and chalked out the new plan for Nov 26, adding that there was no plan of a sit-in and the party office-bearers had been asked to mobilise the workers and supporters for the public gathering.

Meanwhile, the party's Islamabad chapter approached the capital administration to get access to Parade Ground for landing and taking off of a helicopter to be used by its chairman, Imran Khan, for the public gathering and sit-in at Faizabad.

Besides, permission was also requested to cross/proceed from different routes of the capital to reach Faizabad in Rawlapindi.

PTI Islamabad president Ali Nawaz Awan in a letter addressed to the deputy commissioner stated that the party had announced a peaceful public gathering/sit-in at Faizabad (Rawalpindi) on Saturday for which rallies/convoys from Islamabad and...