Imran Khan\u2019s directives
\nIslamabad : The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has claimed that the former ruling party, upon directions of its founder Imran Khan, will join hands with Majlis-e-Wahdat-Muslimeen (MWM) to form its governments in Centre and Punjab.
\nSpeaking to the media in Islamabad on Tuesday, PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan said that the former prime minister, while ruling out the prospects of any talks with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), has directed the party to form a coalition with Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) over reserved seats.
\n\u201cThose who have emerged victorious in the [February 8] polls, should be allowed to form the government as it is their right [do do so], he said while conveying Khan\u2019s message.
\n\u201cI have been given the mandate [by Khan] to approach all political parties to continue the party\u2019s political struggle for democratic values with the exception of the PML-N, MQM-P and the PPP,\u201d Hasan added.
\nOther decisions ratified by the party founder include the nomination of Ali Amin Gandapur as the chief minister for KP, the holding of intra-party elections and the appointment of Amir Dogar as the party\u2019s chief whip in the National Assembly, Hasan added.
\nHis remarks come as PTI-backed candidates have emerged as the largest group by winning over 90 National Assembly seats followed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) with 75 and 54 seats, respectively.
\nIn light of the fact that no party managed to succeed in securing a simple majority, the role of independent candidates has become even more important with both the PML-N and the PPP attempting to rope them in to strengthen their parliamentary positions.
\nThe PTI\u2019s decision to join hands with the MWM \u2014 which has only secured one National Assembly seat \u2014 comes as its sponsored candidates, who have won 116 provincial assembly seats in Punjab, will have 72 hours to join a party once the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notifies their win.
\nIn Punjab, the party would need to join hands with independent candidates and other parties to form the government in the largest province where currently the PML-N is in the lead with 137 seats.
\nMeanwhile, the move to join hands with the JI, which lost two more KP seats of PK-20 and PK-21 to the PTI-backed candidates, is primarily aimed at securing the quota for reserved seats \u2014 since the party lost its election symbol \u201cbat\u201d forcing its candidates to contest in an independent capacity \u2014 which is awarded concerning the seats secured by each party.
\nEarlier in the day, PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif, while addressing a press conference in the federal capital, said that the PTI-backed candidates \u201care welcome to form a government\u201d if they can form a majority in the lower house of parliament.
\nStressing that the party is ready to sit on the opposition benches, Shehbaz said: \u201cWe will accept them [PTI government] happily [however] If they fail to [form government] then we will use our constitutional and legal right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imran Khan\u2019s directives Islamabad : The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has claimed that the former ruling party, upon directions of its founder Imran Khan, will join hands with Majlis-e-Wahdat-Muslimeen (MWM) to form its governments in Centre and Punjab. Speaking to the media in Islamabad on Tuesday, PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan said that the former prime minister, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":60798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60803,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60793\/revisions\/60803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}