The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) demanded on Thursday the withdrawal of the 26th constitutional amendment.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said: “We never spread the message of incitement. There is a dire need for the supremacy of the law.”
“The 26th constitutional amendment is the controversial legislation, which should be withdrawn at any cost,” said Khan.
He said: “The PTI’s mandate was snatched in the general elections. Our seats were given to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) in Karachi. But we still talked about holding the negotiations.”
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“The system cannot be run by letting down one another," he said.
Meanwhile, Awam Pakistan Party (APP) chief Shahid Khaqan Abbasi took a jibe at the government, saying, “Stopping us to hold the conference or considering arresting us reflects the weakness of the government.”
On the other side, former finance minister Miftah Ismail said: “The government has itself proved that there is no supremacy of the law.”
Ismail urged the rulers to sit together and stop thinking about power.
