The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has hinted at resuming its protest movement if the government allegedly keeps dragging its feet over setting up of a judicial commission to investigate results of the general elections.
At a press conference here in Islamabad yesterday, the party’s leaders, who had avoided criticising the government since the Dec 16 Peshawar school attack, reverted to their usual acerbic tone, denouncing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for imposing additional General Sales Tax (GST) on petroleum products without seeking parliament’s approval.
PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the party’s chief Imran Khan was disappointed over the government’s reluctance to constitute a fully empowered inquisitorial judicial commission for audit of the elections.
He said the party’s core committee would meet on Jan 6 to take stock of the situation.
