August 6, 2026
Several PTI leaders and supporters, including the party's Sindh chapter general secretary Dr Masroor Sial, were arrested after police baton-charged and tear-gassed a protest near Fawara Chowk marking three years of Imran Khan's imprisonment. Protesters pelted police with stones.
July 27, 2026
The PTI says it will approach the courts for permission to hold its August 5 protest after the Lahore deputy commissioner did not respond to its request. Imran Khan has meanwhile complained of a lack of meaningful momentum behind the campaign and urged the party to set aside internal divisions.
July 24, 2026
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf finalised its August 5 nationwide protest strategy today, opting for decentralised grassroots demonstrations across constituencies rather than a central Islamabad march — a change in approach after the November 2024 long march ended in a security crackdown and mass arrests. The party, which marks three years of Imran Khan's imprisonment on August 5, is relying on its KP apparatus as the primary organising force while attempting to rebuild street presence in Punjab without the infrastructure it has lost.
July 23, 2026
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has announced it will launch a nationwide protest movement beginning August 5, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa party apparatus serving as the primary organising force. The announcement follows the July 22 strategy meeting chaired by the KP Chief Minister and publicly confirmed by PTI's KP President Junaid Akbar, who has reiterated that securing the release of founding chairman Imran Khan — jailed since August 2023 — remains the party's "sole political objective." August 5 is the third anniversary of Imran's arrest.
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