Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced that it will boycott any meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security that may look into the cable that allegedly revealed a plot to overthrow the government, and has demanded that the country’s Supreme Court form an inquiry commission into the matter.
According to Dawn, the decision came following a meeting of the PTI’s political committee, which also called for immediate general elections and organised a series of demonstrations to galvanise the party’s support base.
All of the party’s provincial presidents, Secretary-General Asad Umer, Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and other leaders, including Fawad Chaudhry, were present at the meeting, which was presided over by PTI Chairman Imran Khan.
In his inaugural address to the National Assembly on Monday, Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, promised a parliamentary investigation into the ‘international conspiracy’ to destabilise Imran Khan’s administration, and pledged to resign if there is even a shred of evidence to support the charge.
Shehbaz Sharif, the President of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and a former Opposition leader, was elected as Pakistan’s 23rd Prime Minister by the country’s National Assembly on Monday, just days after former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government was deposed in a no-confidence vote following a series of dramatic political events.
