Imran Khan on Friday invited his supporters to protest towards the alleged torture of Shahbaz Gill.

Islamabad:

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday invited his supporters to come back out on Saturday to protest towards the alleged torture of PTI chief Shahbaz Gill and towards restrictions imposed on Ary News.

Announcing a number of rallies, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief invited everybody to affix the protest towards the Shehbaz Sharif authorities.

“Tomorrow I will be leading a rally after Maghrib, from China chowk to F9 Park, in support of Dr Gill and in protest against the torture inflicted on him. We will also be protesting against the muzzling of Ary simply because Ary didn’t toe the official line and gave coverage to our narrative,” Imran Khan tweeted.

“I am inviting everyone to join us tomorrow and raise their voice in protest,” he stated in one other tweet.

Gill was arrested by the police on August 9 after he made controversial remarks towards the Pakistan military on tv that had been deemed as “highly hateful and seditious” by the nation’s media authority.

Imran’s shut aide was arrested on expenses of colluding with a personal TV information channel in finishing up anti-state propaganda.

Notably, Pakistan’s regulatory watchdog PEMRA has alleged that the ARY News channel was airing “false, hateful and seditious” content material based mostly on “absolute disinformation with a clear and present threat to national security by instigating rebellion within the armed forces.”

Imran Khan’s social gathering has alleged that Gill was tortured in police custody beforehand and his life stays in peril. He stated a protest is being organised in help of Gill who he alleged was the sufferer of bodily torture that included sexual abuse.

“If a political worker [like Shahbaz Gill] can be subjected to such torture, it could happen to anyone,” the PTI chief instructed reporters outdoors Islamabad’s Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), as quoted by Dawn newspaper.

The PTI chief in an earlier assertion stated Pakistan was “descending into a banana republic”.

He even warned the Pakistan navy institution to “review its policies” whereas asserting that he most popular demise as an alternative of accepting the Shehbaz Sharif authorities.

This warning comes because the PTI chief is embroiled in a battle with the ruling coalition, which he says got here to energy because of a US-backed conspiracy towards him.

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