SHC denies PTI permission for rally at QEA’s ground

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday refused permission to the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) to hold its first-ever rally at the ground of the Quaid-e-Azam (QEA)’s mausoleum in Karachi on Dec.25.But the two-judge SHC bench directed the PTI to contact concerned authorities of the Sindh government to find an alternative venue in Karachi to hold its public meeting.The court order came on a petition filed by the PTI whose Chairman Imran Khan wants to hold a big show of his popularity in the Sindh metropolitan.“The tsunami will sweep Karachi on Dec.25 after it has struck other parts of Pakistan,” Khan said. “Even if there is a war, we will hold this public meeting. Nobody can stop us,” he has been saying over the past three weeks. Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan recently said the PTI could hold it’s meeting anywhere, anytime in Karachi.However, after the court order the PTI would either file an appeal against it in the Supreme Court or inform the provincial government authorities about any other venue to hold its meeting.Meanwhile, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Wednesday that a case of theft of thousands of chairs from a public meeting addressed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan in Kasur on Tuesday has been registered and the PTI chief would also be investigated in this connection.“The tsunami about which Khan is talking for the last three months swept away 25,000 chairs,” he said in a taunting tone during a chat with the reporters outside the Punjab Assembly.He said the tsunami also swept the Kasur rally, which was arranged by former foreign minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri to join the PTI.Sanaullah termed the participants of the rally paid attendees and said the popularity of Khan and Kasuri was tremendously exposed.In a disgusting demonstration, the participants of the public meeting took away 25,000 brand new chairs that Kasuri, one of the wealthiest politicians of Pakistan, had purchased for this rally alone. One such plastic chair generally costs Rs800.