'No deal', says Imran Khan

Peshawar: On Friday, PTI Chairman Imran Khan denied rumors of his party striking a deal with the establishment and said that he ended the "Azadi March" to avert bloodshed. “I had observed the anger rising among people against the police after the things they did to stop the march. Keeping that in view, if we had continued to march as announced, the country would have plunged into chaos and anarchy,” he started in a press conference. The PTI chairman slammed the government for the “brutal” crackdown against the protesters, saying Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah deployed police officers of his choice to crack down on the PTI workers.