Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Asad Umar said on Friday that party chief Imran Khan will not attend the All Parties Conference (APC) of the federal government to be held on February 7.
The PTI leader’s statement came when Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif confirmed the invitation to the PTI chief at the apex committee meeting in Peshawar.
During the apex committee meeting in Peshawar, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said without naming the PTI chief that I have invited the person who does not even want to shake hands with me. C and Apex are invited to the committee meeting. And I hope it will not be rejected.”
The Prime Minister said that we need to keep our differences aside and fight the menace of terrorism.
Recalling his time as the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, the Prime Minister said that whenever he (Imran Khan) wrote a letter to me, he never wrote my name in it, but I always put my name and signature on the letter. Answered with. “
‘How can we sit with them?’
PTI leader Umar, on the other hand, speaking to the press outside the Lahore High Court said: ‘How can we sit with them when cases are being registered against us?’
Speaking to the media, he said that the constitution is being violated by filing treason cases against opponents and all government resources are devoted to arrests and detentions.
Referring to the by-elections, he said that the governors were not ready to give election dates, adding that the 220 million people of Pakistan would not allow anyone to usurp their rights.
The prime minister tries to bring the heads of all political parties to the table to come together to find ways to tackle “critical national challenges”.
The invitation was a significant development as the PDM government and the PTI have always been at loggerheads on almost all national issues, even before Khan’s removal from the PM office.
