LAHORE: The Pak­istan Tehreek-i-Insaf has decided to form a shadow cabinet in Punjab to monitor the provincial government’s performance in each administrative department.

Party’s senior leader Mian Aslam Iqbal, in hiding since the May 9 violent protest, says the party has decided to form a shadow cabinet to scrutinise the performance of the ‘stolen-mandate government’ in Punjab.

Tweeting from his X handle, Mr Iqbal said the incumbent Punjab government was ambitious to unleash political victimisation instead of public welfare. “The PTI will closely watch the performance of each department through its shadow-cabinet,” he said.

Mr Iqbal said no one saw or heard firing during the Sunday protest at the GPO Chowk but the Punjab police unleashed fascism. “The PTI will fight against fascism at every front,” he resolved.

In a tweet, PTI leader Hammad Azhar stated that the Lahore police had registered four FIRs, arrested 104 party workers and five lawyers. “All arrested workers have been discharged from fake FIRs except one MPA Hafiz Farhat Abbas. As per my sources, police were told to do homework on Hafiz Farhat Abbas and ensure he is not released,” claimed Mr Azhar.

Justifying PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s picture on Ramazan flour bags, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz says the government in Punjab belongs to Nawaz Sharif and concluded her argument by saying “Thank you”.

Ms Nawaz was speaking to media in between her hours-long meetings in the Punjab Civil Secretariat on Monday.

When a journalist asked her the opposition was strongly criticizing why the government had put Nawaz Sharif’s picture on Ramazan flour bags using public money, she responded: “Whose government is in Punjab? Of Nawaz Sharif. Thank you”.

PTI Central Punjab general secretary Hammad Azhar commented that “such an arrogance does not suit the government formed with a stolen mandate”.Answering another question about whether the chief secretary will also be transferred as a part of bureaucracy reshuffle, Maryam said, “Why those (officers) be replaced who are doing good work”.