Islamabad
\nAs the political uncertainty about who will form the government in the light of February 8 general election continues, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced that it would form the opposition in the Centre and Punjab as per party founder Imran Khan\u2019s directives.
\nPTI leader Barrister Saif, while speaking to journalists after a meeting with Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) in Islamabad, said that PTI has decided to sit on the opposition benches in the National Assembly and Punjab Assembly.
\n\u201cMany politicians face the allegations that they have power lust but we have decided to sit in the opposition in the Centre and Punjab, despite the fact that if we had got the seats according to the votes we received, we would have been forming the government in the Centre,\u201d he said.
\nSaif added that the Form-45s were the evidence that the PTI-backed candidates had won but the results were changed in the Form-47s .
\nHe said that party was making contacts with political parties on Khan\u2019s orders, and that is why a delegation led by Asad Qaiser visited the QWP secretariat.
\nSaif said that the 2024 polls, which he said were \u201crigged\u201d, created political unrest in the country and resulted in wide scale complaints from the political parties and those \u201cwho had the right\u201d and who had received got the votes of people.
\n\u201cPeoples votes were tempered with,\u201d he asserted. Saif said that some people would be cheering that they have got to form the government, but this celebration would be short-lived.
\n\u201cIf we see this in the long term, this is a huge problem for the nation, the country and the parliamentary democracy in Pakistan because the coming generations have to bear the brunt of such incidents,\u201d the lawyer-turned politician said while referring to the alleged rigging in polls.
\nHe said that PTI wants \u201charmony and an environment of reconciliation\u201d in the country.
\nSharing the details about the meeting with QWP, Saif said that the PTI requested the party leaders to join it on the agenda to protest the alleged polls rigging.
\nAt this, QWP leader Sikandar Sherpao told PTI that they will announce their course of action after sharing PTI\u2019s proposal with the party\u2019s committee.
\nPakistan staged the biggest election of its history on February 8, which was extraordinary in various aspects. However, the outcome of the polls did not turn out to be as expected by the political actors as none of them got a simple majority.
\nWhile the PTI-affiliated independent candidates dominated the election results, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claimed to have enough numbers to form the government as some independents joined the Nawaz Sharif-led party post-polls.
\nHowever, maintaining its stance of having the majority, the PTI also alleges that the polls were \u201cnot free and fair\u201d and plans to stage countrywide peaceful protests against the alleged rigging.
\nEarlier, the PTI-backed independent candidates held a joint press conference, which established that the February 8 general election had set new records of rigging.
\nDespite having the largest number of successful candidates in the general polls, the Khan-founded PTI disapproved of the polls results, saying that the 2024 elections would be remembered in the country\u2019s history due to the scale of rigging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad As the political uncertainty about who will form the government in the light of February 8 general election continues, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday announced that it would form the opposition in the Centre and Punjab as per party founder Imran Khan\u2019s directives. PTI leader Barrister Saif, while speaking to journalists after a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n