LAHORE: Member of the Provincial Meeting (MPA) Rana Muhammad Fayaz has submitted a decision to the Punjab Meeting Secretariat, calling for a ban on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The decision describes PTI as a “disruptive group” masquerading as a political get together and calls for strict motion in opposition to these accountable for the occasions of November 24.
It additional accuses PTI of destabilising the nation by advancing an anarchist agenda and undermining nationwide stability.
The submission comes amid mounting calls from varied quarters to curtail PTI’s actions following current violent protests in Islamabad and different elements of the nation.
This transfer follows an identical decision handed within the Balochistan Meeting on Thursday, initiated by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
The Balochistan Meeting decision accused PTI of harming key establishments, together with the judiciary, media, and economic system.
The doc had known as for federal intervention to impose a ban on the get together and maintain its management accountable for its alleged misdeeds.
The decision, supported by provincial ministers, accuses PTI of orchestrating violent demonstrations, together with assaults on public and navy properties in the course of the Might 9 protests final 12 months.
It additional criticised the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) authorities’s alleged use of state equipment to problem federal authority, terming it a “non-political agenda.”
The opposition within the Balochistan Meeting staged a walkout in protest, decrying the mistreatment of PTI.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif additionally weighed in on the difficulty, condemning PTI for its current actions. Throughout a high-level assembly on Thursday to evaluation the law-and-order state of affairs, the premier directed the institution {of professional} anti-riot forces to stop future unrest.
“As an alternative of taking the authorized route, makes an attempt have been repeatedly made to unfold chaos throughout the nation by marching on Islamabad,” stated the prime minister, accusing PTI of inflicting billions of rupees in financial losses.
He additional instructed officers to plan a technique to stop such incidents and produce perpetrators to justice.
PTI’s current “do-or-die” protest in Islamabad resulted in widespread disruption earlier than it was abruptly known as off following a authorities crackdown.
A complete of 1,151 protestors have been arrested, together with 64 Afghan nationals, with authorities saying that they’ve seized weapons, ball bearings and spiked golf equipment from the arrested Afghans.
In the meantime, PTI chief Salman Akram Raja claimed that 20 individuals had died in the course of the protests, a declare denied by authorities.