Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi has ended the 16-hour-long sit-in staged on Adiala Road, saying that authorities have still not provided any information regarding the well-being of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) jailed founder Imran Khan.
Speaking to journalists at the Gorkhpur checkpoint, CM Afridi said that workers spent the entire night at the protest site.
“We spent the night here with the workers — this was only one night,” he said, adding, “If we have to spend our whole lives here for the PTI founder, we will do so.”
“We have not yet been told anything about the condition of the PTI founder,” he said. The chief minister said that they would not back down from their demands.
“We will not retreat from our protests and sit-ins,” he asserted.
Following the end of the sit-in, the chief minister departed for Islamabad where he will first arrive at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa House in the capital and is expected to file a petition in the high court seeking permission to meet the PTI founder.
After submitting the petition, he will return to Adiala Road.
This is a developing story and is being updated with further details.
