Hyderabad: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan reached Hyderabad where supporters of his party had gathered at the airport to welcome him.
Television cameras showed PTI workers who had been waiting to meet the party chairman for hours clashing with each other outside the airport in Hyderabad.
Imran Khan left for Bit Shah straight from the airport and did not address party workers present there.
The PTI chairman will stay in Hyderabad for a few hours before he heads to Karachi where he will campaign for Imran Ismail his party’s candidate in the NA-246 by-election.
Prior to his departure, Khan spoke to reporters outside his Bani Gala residence in Islamabad and said he was heading to Hyderabad, where he would meet intellectuals and party supporters, after which he would travel to Karachi later tonight.
Khan further told reporters that he was going to Karachi to end the “atmosphere of fear”.
“These places will remain no-go areas if people like me don’t go there,” he said, referring to Karachi NA-246 Azizabad constituency which is considered a stronghold of the Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM).
“This atmosphere of fear which restricts voters and candidates will have to end. These no-go areas are unconstitutional,” he said.
The PTI chairman said that he would campaign with party workers and supporters on Thursday in NA-246.
Khan said that his party has a team of lawyers in London who were ready to take legal action if anything happens to PTI workers or supporters in Karachi.
“We have a legal team in London. If anything happened to my workers, we will take legal action against (MQM chief) Altaf Hussain,” he said.
“He incites people to violence, and this is against British laws. We have noted (his) speeches, and if anything happens to anyone we will go to court (against Altaf Hussain),” he warned.
When asked if the PTI was looking to form an alliance with the Jamaat-i-Islami for the NA-246 by-polls, he said that talks were underway with the party.
He said that he would also speak to JI chief Sirajul Haq for cooperation in the NA-246 by polls.
