ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to hold a series of demonstrations against the PPP-led coalition government to mount pressure for mid-term elections under a neutral interim set-up.

Addressing a press conference at the end of the two-day meeting of his party’s central executive committee here on Sunday, PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that a public meeting would be held in Faisalabad on July 24 to be followed by a series ofrallies, including weekend sit-ins in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad.

He alleged that the government had let loose a reign of terror in Karachi. There was a civil war-like situation in the mega city where killers of innocent citizens were roaming the streets with impunity as the writ of the government had collapsed, he added.

Mr Khan said the PTI had planned to intensify its “remove-government campaign” to save the country from bloodshed in the hope that the Supreme Court would take a decisive action to sack the “corrupt and inept government” and replace it with a neutral caretaker set-up to ensure fair, free and transparent elections.

He said the president and the prime minister should be charged with contempt of court for allegedly obstructing the implementation of the Supreme Court’s orders. He accused the government of destroying vital state institutions and causing irreparable damage to the economy.

Mr Khan held both the Pakistan Muslim League-N and People’s Party responsible for the present mess in the country. “Those who have been providing complete support to the government for three and a half years cannot suddenly become saviours of the country.”

He described PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s initiative for forging a grand alliance of opposition parties as ‘grand fraud’ and said if the PML-N was serious about removing the government then its members should resign from parliament and leave the government in Punjab.