ISLAMABAD: A provincial leader of jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party said on Thursday that it would hold a public rally in the Swabi area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on February 8 – the day marks the first anniversary of the controversial general elections of last year.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unit chief, Junaid Akbar, said that the rally was being held on the directives of Khan.
“A public rally will be held in Swabi on February 8 on the PTI founder’s call,” Akbar, recently appointed as provincial president in place of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, said in a statement.