PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said on Thursday that the party would launch another series of protests against inflation, referring to it as a ‘protest movement’, across Pakistan from Friday (tomorrow).

Speaking to the media in Lahore, Fawad said that PTI’s local leaders will lead the protests for the first three weeks after which party chief Imran Khan would join and provide the next plan of action.

He said that the protest against rising prices and sinking economy would continue until the incumbent government is sent packing.

On talks of the installation of a technocratic setup to replace the incumbent PDM-led government, he said it would be unacceptable. In a press conference a day earlier, he had termed the idea a ‘joke’.

“PTI is the majority party in Punjab. PTI and PML-Q have 190 members in Punjab. It is our privilege to form and dissolve the government,” he said on the ongoing stalemate in Punjab.

Fawad said that horse-trading was rampant in Punjab, claiming that PPP leader Asif Zardari’s recent visits to the province were for that purpose.

He accused Zardari of violating political ethics, saying: “Offers were made to the members of the Punjab Assembly, which 20 members accepted.”