Nominating SIC chief Sahibzada Mohammad Hamid Raza as the spokesperson of his party’s committee for talks with the Pakistan government, jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan sought a meeting with his negotiation team to make the process meaningful. Is of.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan, 72, also put forward his party’s demands and said that if the government agreed, he would postpone the earlier announced civil disobedience movement.
Raza, chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), is a member of the National Assembly and also the chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights. SIC is a coalition partner of PTI.
The PTI leader’s announcement came on Tuesday during a meeting with his team of lawyers at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, where he has been incarcerated since last year.
“The efforts of the party’s negotiation committee are a good thing. To make the negotiation process meaningful, it is important that I meet my nominated negotiation team so that I can have a proper understanding of the issues,” Khan said in a post. After that meeting
Earlier on Monday, the Pakistan government and Khan’s party, in their first meeting, agreed to continue talks to resolve contentious issues, including Khan’s release from jail.
The long-awaited talks between the committees representing the government and PTI were chaired by National Assembly (NA) Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who last week announced his intention to facilitate both sides in an effort to defuse the current political tension. Was.
Monday’s meeting came a day after the Shehbaz Sharif-led Pakistan government threatened to call for civil disobedience, prompting Khan to form a talks committee to begin formal talks with PTI.
After naming Raza as the spokesperson for PTI’s dialogue process, Khan also put forward his party’s demands for the success of talks with the government.
These include the release of all undertrial political prisoners of his party and the formation of a judicial commission to probe the incidents of May 9, 2023 and November 26 this year.
He said, “If these demands are implemented, we will suspend the civil disobedience movement. But I fear that the government will try to bypass our demands of investigation of May 9 and November 26 last year, but we will not let that happen.” Will give.” ,
Khan rejected the military court as “unconstitutional” and said that the decisions of these courts were tarnishing Pakistan’s reputation in the international world, and such inhumane actions could also lead to economic sanctions against the country.
He also said that by the decision of the military court, the constitutional bench formed after the amendment of the Constitution in October this year became irrelevant and by allowing the army-led courts to announce the verdict of the civilian’s trial, the judiciary had indirectly Accepted the political. Engineering is being done to harm his PTI party. He said, “After the 26th Constitutional Amendment, the judiciary has become completely paralyzed. The establishment of the Constitutional Bench and its decisions are tantamount to embarrassing the Supreme Court.”
Khan had announced another round of protests, this time in the form of a civil disobedience movement, asking the Pakistani community to boycott the remittances if their demands were not met by Sunday (December 22).
“We would appeal to Pakistanis living abroad that the situation in Pakistan is clear to you, democracy, judiciary and media have been suppressed, and there is an era of oppression and fascism going on. Therefore, we urge you to initiate a boycott. dispatch,” Khan had announced on December 19.
After Khan was arrested in an accountability case in 2023, hundreds and thousands of his followers and his party workers protested on May 9 at a dozen military establishments including Jinnah House (Lahore Corps Commander House), Mianwali Airbase and ISI Bhawan in Faisalabad. Vandalized. ,
The Army Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi was also attacked by a mob for the first time last year.
Khan’s party launched a protest march at the beginning of the year and the latest was on 26 November when police arrested hundreds of PTI supporters taking part in a protest march and a planned sit-in demonstration in the capital Islamabad.
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