LAHORE: PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday announced that his party would organise rallies from next week till May 14 to demand elections, as more than half of the country`s population was without representation.

`Do not forget that if the Supreme Court gets defied, the Constitution would collapse. It means the end of the rule of law and the beginning of law of the jungle. We would not let it happen,` Mr Khan warned.Addressing a rally in Lahore staged to express solidarity with judiciary, the former prime minister said, `I will organise falsas (rallies) from next week; will start from here [Lahore] and by May 14, willlead rallies up to Attock. Iwill go out in public and prepare people...to demand elections.

The rally lasted less than two hours and featured a ten-minute speech by Mr Khan. `I am on the roads now. Come join me for the sake of posterity. The country is in the throes of deep crises: six soldiers were martyred a day before yesterday, seven teachers were gunned down...and inflation has shot through the roof,` the PTI chairman told his supporters.

In the middle of these existential crises, what is Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif doing in the UK, he questioned. `The premier is there because his wealth is stashed away in Britain. His kids are abroad. This country is only a ruling pastime for the family,` he claimed, before going on to blame former army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa for imposing the current rulers on Pakistan.

`No one has damaged the country more than Bajwa,` Imran Khan insisted in his brief speech, delivered from his bomb-proof vehicle.

He also took a dig at the Indian foreign minister, S Jaishankar, for his remarks about Foreign Minister Baliwal BhuttoZardari. `Have Indians forgotten all diplomatic mannerisms and etiquettes? You either do not invite people or you do not misbehave with them.

Though the Indian attitude leaves much to be desired, Pakistan`s foreign minister should havecalculated the cost-benefit ratio before embarking on this diplomatically risky journey,` Mr Khan added.

`The PTI will lift Pakistan out of the current mess to make it a powerful and respected country by ensuring supremacy of the Constitution and rule of law. In order to achieve that goal, I am out on the streets. Come and join me.

Join me for the sake of the next generations.

`I am on the roads despite verifiable threats to life. I have already escaped an assassination attempt once. On the second occasion, I was able to sniff out murder planning,` the PTI chairman claimed and accused asenior intelligence official of orchestrating plans to murder him.

`Despite these murder plans, I am protesting on the roads for the sake of this country. It is your duty to join me because itis not politics but jehad and the fight for real freedom is never politics,` Mr Khan claimed.

On Friday, the Punjab government allowed a rally from Zaman Park to Lakshmi Chowk a4.5-kilometre route between 2pm to 7:30pm.

The adminstration had promised to facilitate the rally on certain conditions, like avoiding speeches against the judiciary and the military a condition Imran Khan violated by directly naming a serving general.

The police party also took measures to keep the route safe by blocking all exit and entry points till the end of the rally after 6:20pm. The PTI official social media claimed that rallies at 4,000 different points were taken out on Saturday. It kept streaming footage from Rawalpindi and Islamabad and other places.