ISLAMABAD -  After facing warning from other opposition parties not to attack anyone’s house, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) yesterday formally announced the final destination of its September 30 Raiwind March that is very much away from the residence of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

“PTI will hold protest at Adda Plot near Raiwind and this would be the final destination of our September 30 protest rally,” said a statement issued by the PTI’s Central Media Department. Adda Plot is around five kilometres away from Jati Umra, the place where Prime Minister and his family’s residence is located.

PTI said that Chairman Imran Khan would make a historical address at this place and added that the party had formally started preparation of the protest march to pressurise the government to get probe the Panama Leaks. PTI said that the party would welcome hundreds of thousand of workers and party’s processions in Lahore on that day.

The other opposition parties, including PML-N and Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT), had warned PTI chief not to hold a protest demonstration outside the residence of Sharif family as this would be tantamount to attacking anyone’s house. An office-bearer of PTI central Secretariat said that the announcement of the final destination of the protest had been made to inform the other parties that PTI was not attacking any one’s house.

Separately, Chairman PTI yesterday in a statement called on the UN member states, meeting for the 71st General Assembly session in New York, to fulfill their commitment to the people of Kashmir reiterating their right to self-determination made in UN Security Council’s resolutions. He pointed out that in 1999 the Security Council finally fulfilled similar commitments made to East Timor and he demanded that the same resoluteness be enforced on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.

Imran Khan condemned the brutal ongoing assault by Indian occupation forces in Indian Occupied Kashmir against unarmed Kashmiri civilians including women and children - with the death toll rising daily as well as the number of injured. “The use of inhumane weapons like pellet guns are a clear violation of international conventions,” Imran Khan highlighted that it is the duty of the international community to step in and stop the human rights violations going on in Occupied Kashmir by the Indian military - especially since the Kashmir dispute is an international issue on the agenda of the UN Security Council where India took the dispute in January 1948.  Imran Khan stressed that the use of force cannot be used to win over the loyalties of a people nor can people be forced into submission through military occupation.

Chairman PTI also regretted that successive Pakistani governments had tended to push the Kashmir issue on the back burner instead of using proactive diplomacy to move towards a resolution of the dispute.

Imran Khan made clear that Pakistan must have a consistent long term Kashmir policy as the issue is not about territory but about the Kashmiris right to self-determination. “We cannot have an “on-off” approach where we ignore the plight of the Kashmiris until a new uprising by yet another generation of Kashmiris swells up in Occupied Kashmir. Nor can we ignore the wishes of the Kashmiri people,” Khan emphasised.

PTI chief also said that India must move away from its blame game against Pakistan if it seriously wants to move towards peace in the region.

Referring to the Uri incident, Imran Khan said instead of immediately hurling accusations against Pakistan, India should provide actionable intelligence to Pakistan if it is serious in seeking cooperation in the investigation instead of simply political point scoring.  The suffering and struggle of successive generations of Kashmiris has gone on too long for Pakistan and India to simply play politics and indulge in point scoring on Jammu and Kashmir. Nor can the world ignore the continuing violation of Kashmiris human and political rights, Imran Khan concluded:  “The future of the sub-continent lies in resolution of the Kashmir dispute and peace between neighbours, as peace dividends are the best way to reduce poverty in the sub-continent.”