Imran Khan ends PTI protests in wake of Peshawar terror attack

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has announced its decision to end their countrywide protest against alleged rigging during the 2013 elections in light of the terrorist attack on a school in Peshawar.

Imran Khan told party supporters in Islamabad that the decision was prompted by the current situation in the country and added that the country needed "national unity," reported the Dawn.

The decision was taken by PTI's core committee to end the four-month long demonstrations.

However, Khan said that his party would continue to fight for "justice" and reaffirmed his demand to constitute a judicial commission that would probe allegations of electoral rigging during 2013 elections. He said that if the judicial commission finds rigging allegations to be true then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will have to resign.

The decision was welcomed by Sharif.

Almost 10 terrorists stormed inside an army-run school in Peshawar dressed as Frontier Corps' officers and killed 141 people including, 132 children and 9 staff members of the school.