ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will resume its sit-in in front of the parliament house in Islamabad on January 17 as a part of its efforts to press the federal government to constitute a judicial commission to investigate alleged rigging in the 2013 general elections.
The media reports said that the PTI leadership has instructed the party’s provincial presidents to make required preparations for January 17 sit-in.
The PTI Chief Imran Khan will disclose his Plan D in Islamabad sit-in, the reports further said.
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The PTI ended its 126-day long sit-in the federal capital staged in protest against the federal government’s reluctance to launch a probe into elections rigging a day after the Peshawar school attack that left over 130 innocent children dead.
Meanwhile, the ongoing dialogue process between the federal government and the PTI is witnessing a deadlock on three points raised by the latter’s negotiating team. The next round of talks between the two sides will be held on Tuesday.
On Sunday, a meeting of the PTI’s core committee was held at the party chief Imran Khan’s Bani Gala residence.
In a statement issued after the meeting, the PTI’s core committee said that the party’s “conciliatory approach [adopted] in the national interest should not be taken as a sign of a lack of resolve to have the May 2013 elections investigated by an independent, inquisitorial judicial commission.”
“PTI had called off its street protest and its Azadi Chowk dharna but it retains all these options.”
The committee unanimously held that the PTI had gone the extra mile in accommodating the government in this time of crisis so that “the party should not be seen as in any way impeding the national cohesion to fight terrorism”.
