ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday decided that the date of the next march toward Islamabad will be finalized after the federal budget while party MNAs will not appear before Speaker National Assembly for verification of their resignations.
The decisions were taken in a meeting of the core committee presided over by Chairman Imran Khan.
The meeting canceled the plan for an immediate long march due to the budget 2022-23 and decided that the date of the next long march would be finalized after 15 June. However, it was decided that the party would stage a nationwide protest against inflation at the district level.
The core committee also finalized the strategy in case chairman Imran Khan gets arrested.
The party would not engage in talks other than for the date of new elections in the country and its lawmakers would also not appear before the national assembly speaker tomorrow for verification of their resignations.
Addressing the media to brief on the decisions of the core committee, PTI leader and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the party would actively participate in the by-elections for 20 seats of the Punjab Assembly which fell vacant after the de-seating of PTI members on a defection.
He said that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah intends to arrest Imran Khan, adding that such a step would witness an ‘extreme reaction’.
He urged the party activists to strongly react if Imran Khan gets arrested by the ‘imported government’ without waiting for any instruction from the party.
Mahmood warned that those thinking there would be silence over Imran Khan’s arrest were mistaken.
The ex-minister also criticized the inflation storm in the country after the hike in electricity, gas, and fuel prices.
