Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan is expected to address his party supporters and workers at a public gathering in Peshawar shortly.
It is his first public address since losing his government via a successful no-confidence motion against him in the National Assembly over the weekend.
Footage shared by the PTI showed a throng of people at the rally's site.
Prior to Khan taking the stage, his fellow party leaders, including Ali Amin Gandapur, KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, former defence minister Parvez Khattak, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid and National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri addressed the gathering.
PTI leader Shibli Faraz, earlier today, said that Khan would make important announcements at the rally and take the nation into confidence on the party's future roadmap.
Meanwhile, PTI leader Shireen Mazari alleged that coverage of the rally was being blocked on the orders of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's new coalition government.
According to the PTI, the Peshawar rally is expected to kick off a new series of demonstrations with one scheduled on Saturday for Karachi as well.
Sunday's countrywide protests
The PTI took out massive rallies in several cities on Sunday to protest against Khan's ouster. Karachi, Peshawar, Malakand, Multan, Khanewal, Khyber, Jhang, Quetta, Okara, Islamabad, Lahore and Abbottabad were among the cities where large demonstrations were held.
Protests were also staged in Bajaur, Lower Dir, Shangla, Kohistan, Mansehra, Swat, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Nowshera, Dera Ghazi Khan and Mandi Bahauddin.
Khan had tweeted that Sunday marked the beginning of a "freedom struggle" against what he called a "foreign conspiracy of regime change". In an attempt to galvanise his supporters, he had said "it is always the people who protected their own sovereignty and democracy."
More to follow.
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