Islamabad:
Nominating SIC chief Sahibzada Mohammad Hamid Raza because the spokesperson for his celebration’s committee for negotiation with the Pakistan authorities, jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has demanded a gathering together with his negotiating staff to make the method significant.
Imran Khan, 72, founding father of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf , additionally put forth the calls for of his celebration and stated if the federal government agrees, he’ll postpone the civil disobedience motion introduced earlier.
Raza, chairman of Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), is a member of the National Assembly and in addition a md of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights. The SIC is an alliance companion of the PTI.
The PTI chief’s announcement got here throughout a gathering together with his attorneys’ staff on Tuesday in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, the place he has been incarcerated since final yr.
“The efforts of the party’s negotiation committee are a good thing. To make the negotiation process meaningful, it is important that I meet with my nominated negotiation team so that I can have a proper understanding of the issues,” Khan stated in a publish on X after that assembly.
Earlier on Monday, the Pakistan authorities and Khan’s celebration, of their maiden assembly, agreed to proceed talks to handle contentious points, together with Khan’s launch from jail.
The long-anticipated talks between the committees representing the federal government and the PTI had been chaired by the National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who had final week introduced to facilitate the 2 sides of their effort to defuse the prevailing political rigidity.
The Monday’s assembly passed off a day after the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan authorities was prompted to type a negotiation committee to begin formal talks with Khan’s PTI after it threatened to offer a name for civil disobedience.
After nominating Raza because the spokesperson for the PTI’s negotiation course of, Khan additionally forwarded calls for of his celebration for the success of negotiations with the federal government.
These embrace the discharge of all under-trial political prisoners of his celebration and the formation of a judicial fee to probe the occasions on May 9, 2023 and November 26 this yr.
“If these demands are implemented, we will postpone the civil disobedience movement. But I fear that the government will try to sideline our demands for investigations of May 9 last year and November 26, but we will not allow that to happen,” he stated.
Khan additionally rejected the navy courtroom as “unconstitutional” and added that the choice by these courts had been tarnishing Pakistan’s popularity within the worldwide world, and such inhumane actions could even result in financial sanctions for the nation.
He additionally stated that by the choice of the navy courtroom, the constitutional bench arrange after an modification within the structure in October this yr turned irrelevant and by permitting the military led courts to announce judgment of trial of civilian, the judiciary not directly acknowledged the political engineering being performed to hurt his PTI celebration “After the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the judiciary has been completely crippled. The establishment of the Constitutional Bench and its decisions are tantamount to embarrassing the Supreme Court,” he added.
Khan had introduced yet one more spherical of protest within the type of a civil disobedience motion this time, asking the Pakistani neighborhood to boycott remittances if his calls for should not met by Sunday (December 22).
“We will appeal to Pakistanis living abroad that the situation in Pakistan is evident to you, democracy, the judiciary, and the media has been stifled, and a period of oppression and fascism is ongoing. Therefore, we urge you to start the boycott of remittances,” Khan had introduced on December 19.
After Khan was arrested in an accountability case in 2023, lots of and 1000’s of his followers and staff of his celebration vandalised a dozen navy installations, together with the Jinnah House (Lahore Corps Commander House), Mianwali Airbase and the ISI constructing in Faisalabad on May 9.
The Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi too was attacked by the mob, for the primary time, final yr.
Khan’s celebration had launched a protest march earlier within the yr and the most recent was on November 26 when police had arrested lots of of PTI supporters collaborating within the protest march to the capital, Islamabad, and a deliberate sit-in demonstration.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
