Amid grouping and forward block trumpets, PTI founder Imran Khan will meet disgruntled party leaders tomorrow who are raising dissenting voices against the party, reported 24NewsHD TV channel. Asad Qaiser, Umar Ayub, Shehryar Afridi, Shandana Gulzar, Aamir Dogar and Junaid Akbar will meet the PTI founder in Adiala Jail.
Sources said Imran Khan will give a strong message of unity to members. MNAs Shandana Gulzar and Junaid Akbar will be questioned about their statements.
Meanwhile, PTI senior leaders Asad Qaiser and CM Ali Amin Gandapur have contacted former PTI leader Fawad Ch and requested him to abstain from comments over differences in the party. PTI leadership assured that the party will consider Fawad Chaudhry's positive suggestions.
Later talking to the media, Fawad Ch said that PTI senior leaders requested him to remain silent on party matters. He said the overall political situation was also discussed during his meeting with Asad Qiaser and Gandapur.
Fawad Ch claimed party leaders agreed with him that the current policy of PTI leaders would not help the early release of Imran Khan. He said, “Our agenda is the release of Imran Khan as soon as possible and bring back the public mandate. In the current situation, opposition parties needed to unite.”
He said the opposition would have to force the government to talk with the protest movement. He said, “This government has lost politically, morally and legally. Now all that is left is to take physical control”. Fawad Ch said, “Our fight is not with the army as an institution. We disagreed with a few personalities”.
He said, “We can't pick up the gun, we have to find a political solution”. He said he had requested Asad Qaiser on the phone from jail that “we should contact Maulana Fazlur Rehman and establish an alliance”. He said PTI chairman needs best advice and information but the current leadership cannot give any advice to Imran Khan.
He claimed PTI wasted an opportunity to protest on February 9 and the entire party should have stood behind Liaquat Chhata but unluckily Liaquat Chhata's statement was not properly tackled by current leadership.
Fawad Ch said “If Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Jamaat-e-Islami and Achakzai join hands with PTI, the government cannot bear the brunt of this movement”.
Fawad Ch said he held long meetings with Maulana Fazl and Hafiz Naeemur Rahman and they were ready to form an alliance with PTI.
Fawad Ch suggested that PTI should give the post of Speaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly to JUI-F besides the post of Chairman Public Accounts Committee.
Fawad Ch said the establishment has planned to stop the PTI and establishment will continue to push us into the corner until we build pressure.
He claimed Hamid Khan and Rauf Hassan were non-political people and they don't even know the names of journalists. Fawad Ch claimed he had a very good relations with Aleem Khan and Jahangir Tareen and he could have won form 47 and become a minister.
Fawad Ch suggested that Asad Qaiser, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and Shah Mahmood Qureshi can play an important role in normalizing the situation in Pakistan.
Fawad Ch said there was no doubt about Shibli Faraz's loyalty to the founding chairman PTI. Shibli is very loyal but the problem was that he lacked capacity.
He said Barrister Gohar is a gentleman, but he was not a politician. Fawad Ch suggested “if people like Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi get even a little space, things can improve”.
Fawad Ch said PTI got some space after six judges stood for PTI.
He claimed that “We will lose this space unless the PTI leadership changes its strategy. He lauded Overseas Pakistanis who stood for PTI. He said US resolution was in favor of the people of Pakistan. He said Shah Mahmood Qureshi should be brought out and allowed to do politics.