ISLAMABAD Significantly, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) declared on Sunday that it would abstain from voting in the National Assembly and the Senate due to “controversial and non-transparent” constitutional amendments that the ruling coalition is scheduled to introduce in parliament today.
“There is no democratic, moral, or constitutional basis for the group holding the [lower and upper] Houses to amend the Constitution. In a statement, the political committee of the former ruling party stated that “burying the democracy [for good] and enforcing the law of the jungle via constitutional tweaks.”
The decision by the Imran Khan-founded party coincided with the incommunicado status of 11 of its MPs, including two senators and nine members of the National Assembly.
