On May 22, PTI chairman Imran Khan announced that his party’s long march towards Islamabad for the country’s “battle for real freedom” would begin on May 25. Addressing a press conference after his party’s core committee meeting in Peshawar, the former premier said that the main demands for the march to the capital were the immediate dissolution of the National Assembly and a date for the next general election. He also told the military to stick to its stated stance of being “neutral”.
