Imran Khan assigns Arif Alvi ‘important responsibility’ as PTI seeks talks with ‘real power’

Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has assigned an “important responsibility” to former president Dr Arif Alvi, who had been making efforts to bridge the gap between the establishment and former ruling party, revealed the party’s Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan on Thursday. The development came a day after the PTI founding chairman turned down the military’s demand to apologise for the May 9 events and distanced his party from the violent protests that broke out in the country last year soon after his arrest. Addressing a press conference flanked by Alvi outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Ayub said: “The PTI founder has assigned important responsibility to Arif Alvi [during his maiden meeting with Khan after leaving the Presidency].”
For his part, the former president said: “The PTI founder is ready to render [more] sacrifices [for the country]” Without disclosing the nature of the “importance responsibility” the PTI leader said: “I have received instructions from the PTI founder.”