With the day of PTI’s Azadi March here, tensions in Punjab rose on Wednesday after videos of police shelling PTI marchers on the Bati and Bhatti chowks of Lahore emerged on television and social media as workers attempted to remove the shipping containers between them and Islamabad.
It came after PTI chairman Imran Khan exhorted his supporters yesterday to embark on their march for “true freedom” towards Islamabad, just a day after the government said it would not allow the march. In response, Imran called on the youth to remove the obstacles themselves.
Imran Khan, meanwhile, reached the Wali Interchange in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after he left Peshawar by helicopter. He was set to address supporters there.
Video footage of Imran arriving at the Wali Interchange showed PTI activists converging on the chopper.
