Imran Khan's party announces historic rally to kickstart election campaign for Punjab polls
The HinduFormer Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has announced a "historic" rally here to formally launch the election campaign from Wednesday for the upcoming provincial elections in Punjab, media reports said. Party chief Khan will lead the rally riding a bomb, and bulletproof vehicle, PTI leader Hammad Azhar said during a press conference on Monday, underlining a threat to the former Prime Minister's life, the Dawn newspaper reported on Monday. The Punjab province will go to polls on April 30, President Arif Alvi announced last week, hours after the country's top electoral body wrote him a letter suggesting possible poll dates as directed by the Supreme Court. Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog on March 5 banned satellite television channels from broadcasting live and recorded speeches of the ousted prime minister with immediate effect, referring to which Azhar said that nobody could stop the PTI chairman’s "voice as it is Pakistan's voice right now", The News International newspaper said.