The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has revealed its condition for calling off its October 15 protest, with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) rejecting the Imran Khan-founded party’s proposal.
The federal government and its allies, including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), had called upon the PTI to reconsider its rally’s date as it clashed with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, set to be held in Islamabad on Oct 15-16.
Explaining that the meeting would take 10-15 minutes, he stressed that the party’s leadership was worried about its founding chairman’s health. “You’ve made us incommunicado,” he said, claiming that the authorities were not allowing meetings with the ex-prime minister.
The PTI spokesperson also dispelled reports that there were differences within the party leadership over holding the October 15 rally.
The News reported that PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, among others, opposed the rally, while Hammad Azhar, Salman Akram, and others advocated for holding the protest.
Meanwhile, the party has also written a letter to the Ministry of Interior requesting a meeting to be scheduled with the former prime minister. “PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar and Hamid Raza should be allowed to meet the PTI founder.”
