LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif pledged on Wednesday to thwart attempts to instigate an “artificial political crisis” in the nation, as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) prepares to start a new anti-government agitation following Eid-ul-Fitr.
The former three-time prime minister met with PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui in Raiwind and declared, “[The] people of Pakistan will no longer allow anyone to obstruct the journey of development and progress.”
Following the collapse of government-opposition talks, Imran Khan, the party’s founder, ordered the PTI to speed “contact with other opposition parties for protests after Eid” in an attempt to form a grand alliance against the federal government.
The PTI established Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan, a multi-party opposition coalition, in April of last year.
