TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 19: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Central Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi says PTI will not allow both major political parties to “bargain” on the issue of caretaker setup.

Addressing here on Saturday night at an Iftar dinner, he said: “If the government did not give importance to the opinion of PTI and all other political parties that are in and outside the parliament, nation will reject the caretaker government.”

He said the PPP had started attack on judiciary just to save one man and to cover up its failures. He claimed that PTI had emerged as most popular party in the country.

He said the PPP government had completely failed to control energy crisis. He said the PTI would create history by making successful its Waziristan march in September.

A former municipal committee chairman, Rafiq Sarhandi, announced joining the PTI.

Others who spoke on the occasion included former federal ministers Khalid Ahmad Kharal and Chaudhry Naurez Shakoor, ex-Senator Tariq Chaudhry, former district nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq and Mian Kashif Ashfaq.

INMATES RELEASED: On the orders of local courts, 54 prisoners were released from district jail on Sunday on the eve of Eid.

Jail Superintendent Amer Omer Qureshi said under the commutation policy, one convict was released and sentence of five others was commuted. However, 54 prisoners in minor cases were released.