PTI founder says party wants to hear govt\u2019s version, warns of further instability
\nRAWALPINDI
\nPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan said Friday that his party would participate in the all-parties conference (APC) in which the government is expected to take political parties into confidence over Operation Azm-e-Istehkam.
\n\u201cMy party will participate in the all-parties conference and hear what the government has to say,\u201d the PTI founder told reporters as he appeared in a case at Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala jail, where he is imprisoned.
\nThe PTI founder, while noting that his party has reservations over the new anti-terrorism action, said it would \u201conly lead to further instability\u201d in the country.
\nWith terrorism on the rise, the government has launched a reinvigorated and re-energised national counter-terrorism drive, which would be intelligence-based operations\u2019 focused.
\nKhan\u2019s comments came after Geo News reported that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to organise an APC \u201cto gain political parties\u2019 confidence\u201d in newly announced Operation Azm-e-Istehkam.
\nPM Shehbaz will hold consultations to decide on the date of the APC, the sources said, adding that the date would be announced later.
\nThe federal cabinet last week approved the launching of the counter-terrorism operation following the National Action Plan\u2019s Central Apex Committee\u2019s recommendations to turn up the heat on militants targeting Pakistan.
\nHowever, opposition parties including the PTI, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam Fazl (JUI-F), Awami National Party (ANP), and others have voiced concerns over the military operation, demanding that parliament must be taken into confidence before taking any such decision.
\nIn response to the criticism, the PMO had clarified that \u201cno large-scale military operation is being launched\u201d in the country.
\n\u201cThe recently announced vision for enduring stability named Azm-e-Istehkam is being erroneously misunderstood and compared with earlier launched kinetic operations like Zarb-e-Azab, Rah-e-Najaat etc,\u201d read a statement issued by the PMO on June 24.
\nThe federal government had further stated that there are no such no-go areas in the country since the ability of terrorist entities to carry out large-scale organised operations inside Pakistan was decisively degraded by earlier kinetic operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PTI founder says party wants to hear govt\u2019s version, warns of further instability RAWALPINDI Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan said Friday that his party would participate in the all-parties conference (APC) in which the government is expected to take political parties into confidence over Operation Azm-e-Istehkam. \u201cMy party will participate in the all-parties conference …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66969","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\/66969","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=66969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66982,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66969\/revisions\/66982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}