ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Wednesday that his party`s planned shutdown of Faisalabad, Lahore, Karachi and the entire country could be averted if the government set up a judicial commission to investigate allegations of rigging in last year`s general elections.

Addressing participants of PTI`s sit-in at D-Chowk, Mr Khan said he would go ahead with his `Plan C` if the judicial commission was not formed.

`If the government thinks that the shutdown will cause losses to the country it should resume dialogue with PTL` He said the government had agreed in September to set up the judicial commission and a joint investigation team, but when the Pakistan Awami Tehreek ended its sitin it backed out and quit the dialogue process.

Mr Khan said if the PTI ended its sit-in before the conclusion of investigationby the judicial commission, the government would again back out of its commitments, so `we will continue our sitin till the outcome of the investigation` He told the PML-N leadership that if they were under the impression that the protesters were exhausted and could not continue the protest, they were mistaken.

`We don`t care about cold weather because we are determined not to go home before justice is done.

He said he realised that people might suffer inconvenience during the shutdown, but added that he would stick to his plan to pressurise the government to get rigging allegations investigated.

Mr Khan said people themselves should decide whether to bear inconvenience for a day or tolerate a government of a rigged mandate.

He accused the PML-N government of maligning the army by dragging it into a political controversy. The army was not supporting the PTFs sit-in because it was purely a `people`s movement`, he said.