December 26, 2011

People thought Imran Khan had done well for himself at PTI’s Lahore jalsa earlier this year, in October, when more than 100,000 people showed up to support the former cricketer-turned-philanthropist-turned-politician. However, December 25 set a new record for PTI as approximately 500,000 travelled to the Mazar-i-Quaid to support the party. Newsline was live tweeting throughout the jalsa and we weren’t the only ones. To get a sense of how various fans, critics, journalists and  PTI members felt about the event, we have put together a list of their tweets.

Zehra Nabi is a graduate student in The Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. She previously worked at Newsline and The Express Tribune.