Rawalpindi:
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur said the establishment wanted to create a split in the PTI by preventing meetings between party leaders and the imprisoned founder of the PTI, Imran Khan.
“Unfortunately, some of our employees are also falling into this program,” said Gandapur on Monday while talking to the media outside the Adiala prison in Rawalpindi, where Imran Khan has been detained in the past two years.
The chief minister of KP came to the prison center with his provincial cabinet to meet Imran, but the police arrested them in Gorakhpur Nakkal and was later to return without a meeting.
Addressing the media, the CM said that they would not hold a meeting of the cabinet there. “The meetings are not held as this,” he said, adding that the Punjab government led by PML-N can only block the route.
He said the authorities refuse to allow their meeting with Imran after keeping them waiting for four or five hours. “I worked in areas affected by the floods and this waste of time leads to a cost,” he said.
Gandapur said they also refused a meeting with the founder of the PTI when they wanted to discuss with him the mining bill and the budget bill. “If I had been able to meet Imran Khan, there would have been the transparency and the doubts of people would have been authorized,” he said.
The chief minister added that the meetings were also blocked in the elections in the Senate and now they are obstructing meetings related to the Bajaur issue.
“They want meetings to be arrested, so the confusion continues to increase,” he said.
Asked what he could do in response to the refusal of a meeting, he replied, “Should I open the prison? I could do that, but what would he do?”
He criticized the PML-N, saying that he should be ashamed of having made comments during the funeral of martyred soldiers while fighting terrorists. “The PML-N Politicité everything. There is no real democracy in the country-the sets are manufactured. It is not a question of attending the funeral; people should have a conscience. Instead of focusing on the sacrifices of our people, they should resolve their policies,” he said.
