Khan’s party has launched multiple protests demanding the supreme leader’s release in 2023-2024, the latest in November 2024.
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Pakistan’s Shehbaz Sharif-led government has announced plans to start formal talks with Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) after the party threatened to call for civil disobedience. A committee was established.
The committee includes Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, political aide Rana Sanaullah, Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, and other key figures. PTI welcomed the formation of the committee and called it a “positive step” towards resolving the situation.
“We believe the establishment of the committee is a constructive step. There should be meaningful dialogue based on positive intentions,” said PTI chairman and lawyer Gohar Ali Khan.
He stressed that potential consultations should have clear deadlines, adding that the dialogue should move forward in a positive manner, taking into account the sensitivity of the situation.
Parliament Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq took the initiative on Wednesday, offering to entertain the two sides and offer his readiness to facilitate talks.
According to a statement released by the NA Secretariat, he welcomed the newly established committee, saying “the chairperson’s office is always open for members” and inviting the government and opposition parties to consultations.
He called on members of both committees to meet on Monday morning, adding that they would meet in the chambers of Parliament House.
PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram said the party had accepted the chairman’s invitation to the meeting. He said their committee will attend Monday’s meeting.
Akram said the PTI founders will be informed of the progress of the meeting and will decide whether to call off the civil disobedience movement.
The talks are being held after the PTI threatened to call for civil disobedience.
The party posted to He said he would start a campaign. Sunday.
“I call on the government to release political prisoners on trial and establish a judicial commission for a transparent investigation into the events of May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024,” the post said. We have submitted two demands,” PTI founder Khan was quoted as saying. . Additionally, he said both of these demands were “legitimate.”
“If the government does not take action against them by Sunday, a ‘money transfer boycott’, the first stage of the civil disobedience movement, will be launched,” the newspaper said.
PTI spokesperson Sheikh Waqas Akram also reiterated that the civil disobedience movement would be launched tomorrow (Monday) if the party’s demands were not met.
However, the issue of civil disobedience appears to have been put on hold for some time while both countries agree to address their differences through political means.
Mr. Khan, 72, announced on December 5, 14 December 2020, if he demands the release of political prisoners under trial and the establishment of a judicial commission to investigate the events of May 9, 2023 and November 26 this year. He warned that a civil disobedience movement would break out from that day onwards. It wasn’t fulfilling.
Meanwhile, a military court in Pakistan has sentenced 25 civilians to prison terms of between two and 10 years for attacking military installations during the uprising that erupted after Khan’s arrest last May, the military said on Saturday. Announced.
On May 9, 2023, Khan’s PTI supporters attacked several locations, including the military headquarters in Rawalpindi and the ISI building in Faisalabad, to vent their anger over the arrest of the party’s founder in a corruption case. It is believed that the attack was on a military facility.
Hundreds of suspects were arrested in the nationwide attacks, and at least 103 people were handed over to military authorities to stand trial for their involvement in attacks on military facilities.
The former prime minister, currently incarcerated in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, has faced multiple lawsuits since his arrest in August last year and the fall of his government in April 2022.
Information provided by the agency.
