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After months without making any public appearances, PTI leader Taimur Khan Jhagra resurfaced at a party convention in Peshawar on Wednesday and claimed that the PTI would \u201csweep\u201d the general elections scheduled to be held on February 8.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite all these difficulties, PTI will sweep [the elections]. The reason for that is all of you. If you are standing then all of them are standing,\u201d he said while addressing party workers in the provincial capital.<\/p>\n
Jhagra also thanked \u201call those colleagues, workers who served time in jail, who remained standing, are still in jail\u201d.<\/p>\n
He thanked ex-National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser and former MNA from Mardan, Mujahid Ali Khan, who he said were incarcerated before adding: \u201cThe one we must thank the most is Imran Khan sahib<\/em> because he has been in jail for 120 days.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he has said that he is ready to spend a 1,000 years in jail for his nation but will not opt for a deal,\u201d he said. The former PTI chairman has been in jail since August<\/a>.<\/p>\n Referring to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who returned<\/a> to Pakistan in October after four years in self-imposed exile, Jhagra said, \u201cThe laadla<\/em> (blue-eyed) who has come from London has forgotten one thing. He has forgotten that Pakistan has changed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe youth do not accept the laadla\u2019s<\/em> politics. The youth do not accept the politics of traitors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever the difficulties in front of us, on February 8 we will prove that this is a free nation. KP will come out [for the polls], God willing Punjab will also come out. God willing so will Karachi, so will Sindh, so will Balochistan for Imran Khan, for their honour,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In the run up to the general elections, the PTI has complained that it is being stopped from carrying out political activities while several of its leaders have been jailed following violence in the country on May 9.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, President Arif Alvi had also written a letter<\/a> to interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar and raised the PTI\u2019s concerns regarding the \u201cerosion of fundamental rights and a level playing field for all political parties\u201d.<\/p>\n