LAHORE: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) president and party leader Javed Hashmi late on Tuesday reached his hometown of Multan and said he would address media representatives in relation to the ‘Azadi’ march on Wednesday evening.

Hashmi had told reporters upon reaching his Multan residence that he was in the party and would remain a part of it.

“Whenever there is a difficult situation, I come to my constituency to sort it out with consensus,” said Hashmi on his arrival in Multan at a time when his party is close to launching its long march on the federal capital.

Responding to a question, Hashmi said no differences prevailed between him and other party members, adding that he was a democrat through and through and had endured seven years in a prison cell for the sake of democracy.

The PTI leader also reportedly fears the imposition of martial law in the country and has said that he would do everything in his power to stop one.

"It (imposition of martial law) would have to be over my dead body," Hashmi told reporters.

Senior PTI leaders Shireen Mazari and Aijaz Chaudhry have dismissed rumours of differences emerging within party ranks.

Chaudhry said Hashmi was a senior party leader and any rumours relating to differences were 100 per cent incorrect.

The developments come hours after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s address to the nation last night in which he called for formation a judicial commission to investigate allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections.

The prime minister's speech was met with a tepid response from PTI chief Imran Khan who in his press conference spurned Nawaz's overture and asserted that no probe was acceptable without the premier's resignation.