Sunni Ittehad Council leader Hafiz Hamid Raza has said his party’s alliance with the PTI dates back nearly eight years.

“But the way PTI’s ‘bat’ was taken just a few days before elections […] I want to clarify that this is not a single-handed decision. It includes the approval of PTI leadership and Imran Khan,” he said.

Raza added that SIC and Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen were two parties that had always opposed sectarian violence and did not believe in militancy. “We have a clear stance on banned outfits,” he stated.

“I want to clarify one more thing that our support of Imran Khan and the PTI is unconditional and without any demand,” the SIC leader said.

“I want to make it clear, in black and white, that the policy will be of the PTI and Imran Khan sahib,” Raza told PTI-backed independents.