Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Pervez Khattak on Saturday said that if the federal government is serious about inviting the party to the All Parties Conference (APC) on February 7, it should send a written invitation. .
Talking to journalists outside Zaman Park Lahore, the former Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said that inviting the party over the phone is not the right way. He asked the PDM government to give a clear policy on how the country will come out of the current quagmire.
Pervez said that the establishment is trying to remain neutral but the government does not want that to happen.
He said that PTI is ready to talk with PDM government if it will give the date of elections. “But the government is not serious about it,” he added.
The senior PTI leader added that the PDM leaders were not jailed by their government, they went to jail because of their deeds.
The former Chief Minister of KP denied the reports of no forensic laboratory in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and said that there is a forensic laboratory in the province.
PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that on one hand the government is inviting PTI to APC and on the other hand it is targeting party leaders.
Talking to media persons in Lahore, he said that if the government wants to unite the nation, it should first stop targeting PTI leaders.
Qureshi further said that PDM’s agenda is not compatible with the national agenda. He said that the PDM government has completely failed.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday invited PTI Chairman Imran Khan to the APC with the aim of finding solutions to tackle the difficult economic and political crises.
Information Minister Maryam Aurangzeb said in a statement that the prime minister sought to bring leaders of all political parties to the table to come together and find ways to tackle “critical national challenges”.
The invitation was considered an important development as the PDM-led government and the PTI have always been at loggerheads on almost all national issues since Khan’s removal from the PM office.
The move comes at a time when Pakistan is facing a serious threat of terrorism and a troubling economic and political situation, which shows no sign of respite anytime soon.
