The clashes unfolded against a hazy backdrop of police-fired tear gas with PTI supporters and activists flexing their muscles in an unrelenting stare-down with the security personnel who resorted to firing teargas, baton-charging and detaining the marchers. However, the PTI chairman remained defiant and kept galvanising his supporters to not wilt under the crackdown. Later in the evening, in a video message tweeted by the PTI, Imran urged the nation to take to the streets wherever they were and said people heading to Islamabad must reach D-Chowk. The minister said that the recovery of weapons from the residence of PTI activists was not jihad, but ‘fasaad’ (anarchy). Law enforcers resorted to tear gas after PTI supporters tried to remove the containers placed on the routes exiting Lahore.

Source: The Express Tribune May 25, 2022 18:55 UTC