ISLAMABAD: While multi-parties conference (MPC) is due on Thursday (today), Tehreek-iTahafuz-i-Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has alleged that the district administration was pressurising the banquette hall management to cancel their booking.

He has announced that the representatives of different political parties will reach the venue at 10am and will hold a presser outside the banquette hall if not allowed to enter.

Talking to Dawn, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar claimed that on Wednesday morning Tulip Marque management informed him that the representatives of the district administration reached there and instructed them to cancel the booking.

`Hall management informed that they have been told that the banquette hall will be sealed and will remain sealed if All Parties Conference (APC) was held there. We have decided to reach there at 10am and will hold a press conference there, if not allowed to hold the APC, he said.He said that during the tenure of Imran Khan, PDM was not stopped from holding events, meetings and conferences.

Mustafa Nawaz alleged that there was undemocratic system and they want to make the country North Korea in which opposition does not exist. He said that TTAP will use all possible tactics to exercise its democratic and constitutional right.

Last week, six-party opposition alliance-includingthe PTI-said it will organise a multi-party conference in Islamabad on July 31 and Aug 1 to discuss the `deepening constitutional and political crisis` and restore `true democratic representation`. The presser was held by TTAP chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai. He said it was time for a `serious` national dialogue to steer the country out of the troubled waters. He emphasised the conference would not be a `symbolic`, saying it would bring together political parties, civil society and even `representatives from institutions` to find a lasting and durable solution to the problems facing the country. Ikram Junaidi