Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday directed the Interior Ministry to take effective and immediate steps🦩 to provide “foolproof security” to ousted premier Imran Khan in the wake of threats.
The threat waཧs issued by the security agencies ahead of his planned participation in a rally in Lahore on Thursday. Khan, who was asked to address his supporters virtually, hasꦺ declined to do so.
A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on Twitter said t🐻hat premier Sharif has directed the Interior Ministry to take measures.
"Shehbaz Sharif has directed the Interior Division to take ef💦fective and immediate steps for provision of foolproof security to ex-premier Imran Khan. He further said that peaceful public meetings are part of democracy an🐼d instructed that no hurdle should be created," it said.
Earlier, the Lahore administrꦉation asked the organisers of the rally to install a bulletproof shield for him and also advised the former prime minister to use a bulletproof vehicle with a sunroof and windows shut to move to and from the venue of the rally.
Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been asked to install a backup electr🐎icity generator to avoid any untoward incident in case of power failure.
Khan is set to address a rally at Minar-e-Pakistan, which will be his first power show in Lahore since A꧃pril 10 when he was ousted from the office.
It is believe﷽d that the rally would help reorganise the party on t✤he pattern of one such event held on October 30, 2011 at the same venue which transformed the PTI into a mainstream party.
The rally comes on the heels of a successful social media address by Khan on Wednesday night which his su♓pporters claimed broke all records.
