Peshawar:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) ended up in the throes of an increasing internal fracture on Saturday while the candidates for the rebel Senate rejected the `Diktat ” of the party to withdraw their appointment documents, promising rather to challenge the ballots of July 21 in the opening of the distrust of a case of consensus backed by opposition.
The development came while the government and the opposition to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa struck a rare unit pact to ensure the victory of 11 candidates contained in the Senate in a decision to set up party rebels.
The PTI Political Committee, meeting late on Saturday evening, approved a power sharing agreement with the opposition and reaffirmed the list of official candidates published by the founder of the Imran Khan Party.
However, this decision sparked a reaction from the aspirants away, which accuse the management of capitulating what they call an “agreement sponsored by the establishment”.
Despite the directive to withdraw, five rebel candidates, including Irfan Saleem, Khurram Zishan, Waqas Orakzai, former Ig Irshad Hussain and Aisha Bano, held good after internal consultations.
In public statements and video messages, they said they would not bow to that they claimed to be “the political opportunity” and the “compromises to behind”.
“This went far beyond the elections in the Senate,” said Khurram Zishan in a provocative message. “We are asked to give our confidence to the very people who have imprisoned our workers, tortured our elders and stole our mandate via form 47. We reject political wheels and traffic. We do not make a policy … We are resisting.”
The party repels, the rebels dig
The Party political committee, while supporting the PTI Imran Khan PTI side list, recognized internal objections, notably candidates like Mishal Yousafzai and Irfan Saleem, but said that the founder’s decisions were final.
The committee warned the dissidents that they could face disciplinary opinions if they did not comply.
PTI management has given rebel candidates a deadline for 12 hours today to withdraw. However, the dissidents, embraced by what they claim are 20 MPa in contact with them, seem not discouraged.
IRFAN SALEEM accused PTI management of forming an “impious alliance” to install candidates supported by the establishment.
“We will not allow this defilement on a legislature based on the name of Imran Khan,” he said. “Our resistance is not personal, it is ideological.”
Aisha Bano said that the Senate seats were “a trust who gave us by party workers and Khan himself” and would not be given to those who “stole our mandate”.
“This is not only another election … It is the front line of a movement,” she said.
Govt, the opposition unite its forces to eliminate the rebels
Meanwhile, sources have confirmed that the government and the opposition to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa had struck a rare unit pact to ensure the victory of 11 candidates contained in the Senate in a touch of touch of the PTI rebels.
The chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur and the opposition chief, Dr. Ibadullah, will jointly supervise the training and the coordination of seven special voting panels.
Four of them will be supervised by the provincial ministers, the other three managed by opposition parliamentary leaders.
Under the plan, government AMPs will be gathered in the CM Chamber and sent to groups to vote under ministerial surveillance. Opposition deputies will follow a similar strategy.
Each panel will be responsible for voting for specific candidates, women and technocrat. Cooperation includes a liability mechanism, the two parties being accepting to investigate whether the votes slip to the rebel candidates.
A B safeguard plan, involving a delay in the elections or the sweaty in the new AMPs, was discussed but ultimately put aside due to a lack of consensus.
The senior PTI leaders should be present in the Assembly during the vote, as well as the main opposition figures. Sources within the opposition have expressed their confidence in the arrangement.
“We are satisfied with the government’s commitment. All the eleven candidates should gain gently if the agreement is holding,” they said.
