ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) president Makhdoom Javed Hashmi on Wednesday assured the National Assembly that his party was not in favor of midterm elections.
Commenting on the law and order situation in the country, the senior PTI leader said that it was the constitutional right of the party to protest on May 11 against the 'rigging in the general elections of 2013.'
Hashmi said that all the political parties should play their role to protect democracy and the parliament at all cost.
“Parliament is our mother and we will never compromise on the supremacy of the parliament,” Hashmi said.
He said that all the institutions should work within their mandate for the progress of the country.
“The ban on the freedom of expression is not a solution of any problem while there should be a code of conduct for the media houses in this regard,” he added.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Rana Tanveer Hussain said that the media representatives should be careful with regards to national interests.
He said that the PTI should wait for the next general elections because their protest against the poll rigging was not a solution for any problem.
Earlier, Muttahida Qaumi Moverment (MQM) parliamentarians staged a walk-out from the National Assembly session against the incidents of targeted killings of its workers in Karachi.