ISLAMABAD, October 25: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday denied that the party had invited the Difa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) to participate in the PTI’s planned siege of Islamabad on Nov 2.
“DPC has its own ideology, they are holding their programme on Oct 28. We can not stop them but we did not invite them. We did not invite DPC or Shuhada Foundation.”
The government has been creating the impression that PTI has been inviting militant organisations to participate in Nov 2 lockdown,
Qureshi alleged, adding, that “this is governmental propaganda…We are against extremism.”
“We never invited any militant organisation ever,” he claimed.
We are inviting people, students, farmers, labourers and all those who are against tyranny and injustice, no matter with which party they belong to, he said.
PTI has planned siege of Islamabad on Nov 2, where the party has threatened to “lock down” the capital. The PTI has vowed not to let the government function if the prime minister does not give himself up for accountability for the revelations made about his family’s off-shore wealth in the Panama Papers.
In an unexpected development on Monday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri accepted PTI’s request to join the planned showdown.-Agencies
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