A move by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to launch a street campaign from May 11 is being viewed with skepticism by most of the major political parties, and even its coalition partner in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government seems reluctant to join it.
They consider Imran Khan’s decision to launch the campaign against the alleged rigging in the last year’s elections ill-timed and suspect there is a hidden agenda behind it.
Reports that Dr Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) may join the PTI protest is the main reason for the political parties to believe that Imran Khan is doing this “at the behest of undemocratic forces”.
The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), a coalition partner of the PTI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is also noncommittal about joining the protest campaign
