After calls were made to initiate a new round of reconciliation talks, PTI senior leader Shehryar Afridi has claimed that his party will hold \u201cdialogues with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) soon\u201d instead of talking to \u201crejected people\u201d who reached the parliament \u201cForm 47\u201d.
\nAfridi made the statement while speaking to the Geo News programme Naya Pakistan when sought his opinion about ways to put the country on the path of political stability.
\nSlamming the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) led government, the PTI stalwart alleged that the incumbent rulers are a bunch of \u201crejected people\u201d who are being \u201ccontrolled through remote\u201d and reached parliament via \u201cForm 47\u201d. He also alleged that the ruling parties were \u201csupported by the establishment\u201d.
\nResponding to new calls for reconciliation, he said that there was no benefit for the former ruling party to hold dialogues with the \u201cpeople rejected by the nation\u201d.
\nHe went on to say that PTI founder Imran Khan and Pakistan are inseparable while his opponents faced a humiliating defeat in the February 8 nationwide general elections despite committing \u201cworst rigging\u201d.
\nIt needs a moral power for the incumbent rulers to step down after accepting that they did not get votes from the nation, he added. \u201cMy leader doesn\u2019t want any NRO. We want dialogues for the betterment of Pakistan,\u201d Afridi said, adding that Khan wants to engage all stakeholders for a better country but he did not receive any response. He clarified that the PTI was neither going against the national interests nor the military and other state institutions.
\nThe former federal minister also claimed that the Imran-founded party would soon hold talks with the army chief and the top spy, however, he did not disclose any further details nor any other party leader seconded his statement so far.
\nEarlier this week, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said that they did not receive any messages for dialogues nor holding any secret dialogues.
\nHe was responding to queries regarding a possible reconciliation talks signalled by PML-N stalwart Rana Sanaullah.
\nPTI founder Khan has confirmed that he did not receive any messages for dialogues, Barrister Gohar said while speaking to reporters outside Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala Jail on Tuesday. \u201cWe will publicly confirm if we receive any invitation for talks.\u201d
\nThe politico categorically rejected holding dialogues with the incumbent government and said that his party would not hold any \u201csecret talks\u201d.
\nEarlier, Sanaullah extended a \u201creconciliation offer\u201d to the incarcerated Khan and said that together they could steer the country out of crises.
\nSpeaking on Geo News programme Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath, he urged the PTI founder to come to the table as the country\u2019s fragile economy could not bear escalating political tensions and politics of protests and agitation.
\nHe asked Khan to \u201ctake the matter to a logical conclusion\u201d. The former interior minister said that the PTI founder was not even \u201cready to sit or talk\u201d with anyone.
\nSanaullah made the call for dialogues after his party claimed at least two out of the five National Assembly seats, and also won 10 out of the 16 seats in the provincial legislatures, according to the unofficial and inconclusive results.
\nMeanwhile, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid have won one seat each in the provincial assemblies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After calls were made to initiate a new round of reconciliation talks, PTI senior leader Shehryar Afridi has claimed that his party will hold \u201cdialogues with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Director General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI) soon\u201d instead of talking to \u201crejected people\u201d who reached the parliament \u201cForm 47\u201d. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881","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=63881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63895,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions\/63895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}