Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will emerge as the largest party in the general elections and the real contest in general elections would be between the PML-N and PTI. Those who were propagating that PTI has no vote bank were living in fool's paradise, said former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi while talking to newsmen here on Friday.

"The balloon of the PPP and PML-Q has deflated. Now they feel like having crutches but no crutches can support them now," he added. He claimed that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would emerge as a political power in Punjab and other provinces in general elections and it would lay the foundation for a true democracy in the country. "These foundations will be laid on the basis of principles like independent foreign policy, freedom of interest based foreign debt and monetary institutions," he added. To a query, he said that the past and current government made their foreign policy dependent of financial needs as a result of which external intervention in national issues increased horribly.

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