Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders said at a press conference outside the Parliament House on Monday that they boycotted the National Assembly session because the government refused to take responsibility for the murder of their party workers in Islamabad.
PTI leader Omar Ayub Khan said they carried bodies of their workers and many of the arrested party workers lost their mental stability due to the torture they faced in custody. He said that PTI founder Imran Khan put his life on stake for the sake of the Pakistani nation. He said that Imran Khan built hospitals for cancer treatment, but the government blames everything on the jailed former prime minister and his wife Bushra Bibi. “Who told the government about the court decision?” he asked.
Speaking on the occasion, former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser said the PTI would continue its protest until a judicial commission is formed to investigate the May 9 violence and the November 26 firing by the security forces on the PTI supporters. He asked if postponement of the court verdict in the Al-Qadir Trust case was a conspiracy. He said the PTI leadership was neither tired nor afraid of anyone.
He said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would not be livable for ordinary people in the next six months. He said that Pakistan was in the grip of economic and political crises. He said the PTI was serious about talks with the government and wanted supremacy of the constitution in the country. He said that Defence Minister Khawaja Asif and others were hatching conspiracies.
PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan asked who ordered the security personnel to open fire on the PTI workers in Islamabad on November 26? He said the defence minister could talk about anything, but he could not name the person who ordered the security personnel to open the fire.