LAHORE, Nov 30: While incarcerated leaders of the PTI have sought to suspend the ongoing protest movement, a message shared on "Islamabad massacre" from party founder Imran Khan's X handle called Nov 26 a black day in the history of Pakistan.
The protest movement was abruptly suspended after the state machinery pushed the PTI protesters away from Islamabad's D-Chowk, but Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur announced, "Our sit-in at D-Chowk will continue until our leader Imran Khan will call it off."
Incarcerated leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Senator Ejaz Chaudhry, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, Omar Sarfraz Cheema and others in Kot Lakhpat jail, through an open letter delivered to media persons on Friday, called for suspending the protest movement and urged the party leadership to announce a countrywide mourning. They said condolence meetings should be organised across the country for recitation of Holy Quran, while party leaders visit the bereaved families and offer fateha at the graves of 'D-Chowk martyrs'.
They also suggested sharing of authentic details of the massacre with the people through 'social media with full force'. According to them, the mourning and condolence references could be developed into a united public force venting their anger against the state action. —DAWN
