Decides to convene joint session of parliament tomorrow
The coalition government on Monday said the PTI was “not a political party but a clique of militants trained by banned outfits”, and resolved to take action under the law.
The decision was taken in a six-hour-long meeting of the political parties in the ruling coalition at the Prime Minister’s House, according to a press release.
“The meeting declared that the entire nation has seen that PTI is not a political party but a clique of militants trained by banned outfits for which there is evidence and proof so it was decided to take action in this regard according to the law,” the press release reads.
The prime minister chaired the important meeting of the allied parties.
The leaders, in a joint statement, said the police and Rangers, who came under attack, were only implementing the court orders.
During the meeting, the overall economic, political and internal, external situation of the country and peace and security were reviewed in detail.
The participants were briefed in detail about the economy, revival of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Programme and measures taken by the prime minister for relief to the public.
The relief measures included farmers’ package, supply of free flour during Ramazan to poor families, scheme to provide special relief of Rs 50 in the price of petrol to the low wage and low income people, special CSS examination for youth across the country, promotion of solar energy, interest free and inexpensive loans for youth and reha-bilitation of flood affectees and other programmes.
The attendees appreciated Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for revival of the economy and the IMF programme and for providing maximum relief to the people despite diffi-cult economic conditions and expressed complete confidence in his leadership.
They said that it was matter of grave concern that violent and trained miscreants com-prising persons belonging to banned organizations and carrying petrol bombs, sticks, catapults and weapons attacked officers and personnel of state institutions.
This behaviour in no way was constitutional, legal, democratic and political, they said adding taking up arms against state, targeting of officers and jawans, shooting at them, burning of vehicles, besieging the court premises and rioting, throwing of police vehicles in canals and stopping and torturing policemen who were on duty was an ex-treme of lawlessness, which nobody state could tolerate.
The meeting expressed solidarity with officers and Jawans of state institutions and lauded their sense of duty and declared that no leniency would be shown and strict action according to law would be taken against those elements who broke the law.
