PTI wants institutions to work within constitutional limits

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan said on Saturday the country could get out of the present quagmire only if all state institutions end infringement and begin working within their constitutional limits.

Addressing a news conference here, he said a reign of terror had been unleashed upon PTI, its leaders and workers over the past two years.

A demand was also made by senior party member and lawyer Shoiab Shaheen that the circumstances in which Quaid-i-Azam and Fatima Jinnah breathed their last should be investigated, besides probing the murder of Liaquat Ali Khan, judicial murder of Bhutto and killing of Benazir Bhutto to ascertain the factors and to fix responsibility.

Flanked by PTI senior leader Shoaib Shaheen, Raoof said that his party was ready for investigation into the 2014 sit-in and Parliament attack but the judicial commission’s scope should be expanded to probe “cipher, regime change operation, assassination attempt on PTI founding chairman Imran Khan, May 9 incidents, stolen mandate through blatant polls rigging on February 8, audio/video leaks and political engineering” to determine the real factors and expose the plotters of these tragic incidents to bring the truth to the fore.

Moreover, he stated that three prime ministers were killed in Pakistan but never was responsibility fixed and culprits punished, demanding that these matters should be fairly investigated to punish the wrongdoers. The PTI information secretary condemned the “brutal use of state power on peaceful workers”.

The PTI CIS expressed alarm over the IMF report and the reported delay in the visit of a high-level delegation from a brotherly country.