In a breaking development, multiple incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leaders have written to PTI founder Imran Khan urging him to begin talks with the government.
Media reports suggest that these jailed leaders include Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Ejaz Chaudhry, and Omar Sarfraz Cheema.
These PTI members who are currently in prison wrote an open letter to Khan, requesting him to do away with isolationist politics.
They also said that PTI’s jailed leaders in Lahore should be part of the talks. They requested that Imran Khan be made available to help form a negotiation committee. They added that this meeting process should continue from time to time.
In the open letter, the leaders warned that the country is facing one of the worst crises in its history and states that negotiations are the only viable way out.
It highlights the need for dialogue at both political and institutional levels.
Frictions within PTI?
Member of the National Assembly (MNA) and former PTI maverick Sher Afzal Marwat has revealed that Aleema Khan is making all the decisions within the party, and he was also expelled from the party on the instructions of Aleema Khan.
Speaking in a private program of ARY News, Sher Afzal Marwat said that she (Aleema Khan) makes all these decisions about who should come and who should go. He added that Aleema Khan believes that she is running the party herself.
Sher Afzal Marwat said that Aleema Khan also decided to expel him from the party. He claimed that Aleema Khan also decides against whom to campaign.
His revelations have raised many questions about the internal affairs of the party, while there has been no reaction from the party leadership on this statement so far.
