PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has announced boycotting the all-parties conference (APC), summoned by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi over recent tribal clashes that claimed at least 133 lives and injured 186 others.
The all-parties conference, would be held tomorrow (Thursday) at 10am.
“The PPP [Pakistan Peoples Party] has no mandate in KP […] it wants to hold a lifeless exhibitory meeting to portray itself as democratic party,” the PTI said in a statement issued a day before the APC.
It added that the PPP was “actively supporting” the government’s nefarious agenda of banning PTI, alleging that the party was also involved in “rounding up” its workers and supporters in Sindh.
Separately, PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram said that the decision was taken over the PPP’s “silence on massacre of unarmed and peaceful civilians” — referring to the party’s allegations of “straight firing” on protesters in Islamabad.
The recent episode of clashes triggered by ambush on two separate convoys under police escort, resulting in 52 deaths on November 21. Subsequently, clashes between the warring clans escalated despite efforts to broker a ceasefire.
