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| I can I will! courtesy AFP. |
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) mass congregation at
Minar-e-Pakistan is the largest by all social and politcal standards of
Pakistan. The PTI is a 15-year-old budding party, who has never been in the
power not even in the opposition in the elected houses. The PTI has arranged
50,000 seats for the people. These seats were filled several hours before the
congregation started. Various media assessments state the number of audience
around 70,000 people in the PTI rally.
This number is huge when all these people come on their own.
On the other hand, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz used all unfair
means to gather people in their rally two days ago. All the government
departments, revenue officials and bureaucracy were ordered to bring buses
laden with people carrying party flags and banners. The bureaucracy in
Gujranwala alone arranged 400 buses to fill the PML-N’s Lahore rally. However,
all the people in the PTI congregation came on their own, paid their own fare, ordered
the party flags themselves. When Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) fills its rallies by
threat, the PML-N owes its large political gatherings to Patwaris (revenue
officials), the PTI’s Lahore congregation is mammoth because it was filled in
by the people of Pakistan.
