 
The Nation (February 21, 2010) RAWALPINDI – Terming the sitting parliament as dummy, Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan said that time had proved that election 2008 devastated the democracy in the country.
Imran Khan stated this here on Saturday while addressing the press conference at Rawalpindi Press Club after the announcement of withdrawal by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) candidate advocate Talib Hussain Quershi in favour of PTI candidate Ijaz Khan Jazi in February 24 by-elections in NA-55 constituency. JUP’s central joint secretary Hamid Raza Bhatti, provincial deputy information secretary Noor Mustafa Noorani, PTI’s Aamir Mehmood Kiani, Zahid Kazmi and others party leaders were also present on this occasion. Chairman PTI said that the corrupt politicians put the country back economically and held them responsible for looting the national exchequer. Imran Khan remarked that if the present government continued to govern the country like that then the people would tag former President Pervez Musharraf as hero in the days to come. He said that due to wrong policies of the present regime, the people were ready to conduct long march, however, the U-turn made by the government on judges issue, the long march had been stopped for time being. “If the government did not improve its performance then the people would come out in the streets,” he warned. PTI Chief made it clear that if the government tried to rig the February 24 by-election in Rawalpindi then the PTI would move the apex court. He said that all the political parties in Gilgit-Baltistan, Mansehra and Swat by-elections had levelled pre-poll and polling day rigging allegations on the government, but no action had been taken by the Election Commission to redress the grievances of the aggrieved candidates. Express News (Feb 21, 2010):
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