Alarmed at the flight of some of its newly elected lawmakers to other political parties soon after the general elections, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has chalked out a strategy to prevent any further defections.
Quoting its sources, a private television channel reported that the party had decided to take oath from its winning candidates that they would remain loyal to the former prime minister and ex-PTI chairman Imran Khan.
The affidavit given to PTI’s Shahid Khattak, who had been elected as MNA from NA-38, Karak, read that he would not join any party, including the PML-N and the PPP, sources disclosed.
After no party managed to get a simple majority either in the National Assembly or the Punjab Assembly in the elections, both the PPP and the PML-N are now busy making efforts to enlist the support of PTI-backed candidates, who have been elected to assemblies in large numbers, so that they could form governments both at the Center and in the provincial assembly sans PTI.
