ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced that it will hold major rallies in Waziristan and Karachi on May 11 and 12 respectively.

“We have already kick-started our national election campaign from Lahore. We are now going to hold another two big rallies. The first will be in Waziristan on May 11 followed by the second in Karachi on May 12. Imran Khan will address them,” PTI spokesman Fawad Chaudhry told a press conference here on Friday.

“Nobody paid any attention to what Waziristan had to go through after the 9/11 attacks. We had been saying from day one that the people of FATA should be given equal rights,” he said.

Referring to a briefing of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Mr Chaudhry said that local government election would take place in FATA this year before holding provincial assembly elections next year.

He accused the ruling PML-N of creating hurdles in the mainstreaming of FATA at the behest of Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Mahmood Khan Achakzai.

To a question, he said that any delay in the elections would be unacceptable, adding it would be in everyone’s best interest that polls were held as per schedule.

“PML-N’s survival as a political party seems impossible as Chaudhry Nisar and Shehbaz Sharif are leading one group while another is being controlled by Nawaz Sharif and Pervaiz Rashid,” he opined.

To a question, he said that Nawaz Sharif had lost his councilor seat in 1979 but he managed to hold it with the help of aliens.