LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, in its special meeting here, has resolved that the party will begin mobilizing workers and civil society against corruption and launch a protest movement to ensure the accountability of the Sharif family.

The PTI meeting, chaired by Chairman Imran Khan at chairman’s secretariat on Thursday, also decided that an important party meeting would be held on July 20 to give a final shape to the mass mobilization campaign.

Mr Khan told the meeting that the party would continue contesting and protesting against the rulers to ensure that corruption was checked and rulers held accountable.

The meeting also resolved that a reference would be filed in the National Accountability Bureau against the rulers and that the Federal Board of Revenue would be asked to at least perform its duties towards eradicating corruption.

Mr Khan stressed that the party should launch a campaign to mobilize civil society during the next 10 days or so.The meeting was attended by secretary-general Jahangir Khan Tareen, MNA Shafqat Mahmood, Abdul Aleem Khan, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, Ejaz Chaudhry, Ishaq Khakwani, Andleeb Abbas and Samsam Bukhari.

Published in Dawn, July 9th, 2016