ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday announced that his party would boycott the joint session of the Parliament on Wednesday.
Addressing a press conference after the party’s meeting at Bani Gala, Khan said he doesn’t consider Nawaz Sharif as legitimate Prime Minister of Pakistan and going to the parliament means lending him legitimacy.
“Nawaz Sharif has convened the joint sitting of the parliament to save himself from Panama probe,” he said, adding there was no need to call the session.
Imran Khan also lashed out at National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq for his refusal to forward a reference against Nawaz Sharif to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
“I wasn’t named in the Panama Papers and yet my case was referred to the commission,” he lamented.
He said that Prime Minister Sharif was doing everything to save himself from accountability in the wake of Panama revelations, which put spotlight on his offshore holdings.
To a question, he said that PTI sent its representative to the meeting of parliamentary leaders despite reservations.
He cleared that PTI stood with all the political parties in support of Kashmiris but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would not be allowed to divert attention. He recalled that the government did not accept opposition’s Terms of References for probe of Panama leak against premier’s family.
The Chairman of PTI demanded the premier to resign and the government be led by another member of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. He also let it know that the party would give details over shutting down Islamabad by Thursday, a claim that he made on September 30.
Meanwhile, sources say that PTI will shut down Islamabad on October 30 to press the government for Panama inquiry.
