Long-awaited 26th Amendment tabled; PTI skips voting

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to skip voting on the controversial 26th Constitutional Amendments as both the Upper and Lower Houses are expected to go to vote on Sunday evening.

Chairman of PTI, Barrister Gohar, again met Maulana Fazlur Rehman, head of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Sunday afternoon to discuss the Amendments again.

Talking to the press after the meeting, Barrister Gohar said, “We appreciate Maulana’s role but Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf will not vote on this Amendment.”

He said that he hoped to continue the fruitful relation the party has with Fazlur Rehman.

Maulana himself them took to the podium to make a few short comments.

“In the process of [formulating] the Constitutional Amendments, we have broken the teeth of the black snake and removed it’s venom. I think PTI will agree with this.

Abstaining from voting as protest is PTI’s right.”

The two leaders then walked away.