Only Imran Khan to decide about reconciliation with establishment: Gandapur
By News Desk
March 5, 2024 05:18 PM
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur said Tuesday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will decide about reconciliation with the establishment.
The chief minister made the remarks after meeting the former premier, who is currently incarcerated at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi on Tuesday. Gandapur said that both the establishment and institutions "are ours" but the decision for reconciliation with the establishment will be made by Khan, who is the only prime minister to be ousted through a no-confidence motion.
KP Chief Minister said the PTI will soon introduce a system which will prevent “mandate theft”.
He reiterated the demand for a judicial inquiry into the May 9 riots. Gandapur also asserted that Imran “will soon be among us” and that the ex-premier was in “high spirits”.
While talking about the formation of the government in the Centre, Gandapur said he would work with PM Shehbaz as far as the provincial administration was concerned. “How can I accept the oath of a person who came to the position through mandate theft?” he asked.
The PTI leader further promised that he would work for the rule of law in KP, adding that a massive protest will be held on Sunday across the country.
He also demanded the chief justice form an inquiry commission to probe the May 9 events when violent protests broke out in many parts of the country following the PTI founder’s arrest in a corruption case last year.
“Our women workers are in jails. We demand that those who benefited from the May 9 [riots] be held accountable,” he added.
Speaking about the hooliganism and verbal assault on a party’s woman lawmaker in the recent session of the KP Assembly, Gandapur blamed the PML-N lawmaker Sobia Shahid for using a “woman card”.
“The woman was at fault but I apologised to her as CM,” he said.