Gandapur’s disappearance demoralised PTI employees: Atif

PTI supporters and activists pictured at a roadblock during a protest in Islamabad on October 5, 2024. — AFP
PTI supporters and activists pictured at a roadblock throughout a protest in Islamabad on October 5, 2024. — AFP

Because the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) appears to be like to take to the streets in Islamabad as soon as once more, its Member of Nationwide Meeting (MNA) Atif Khan has lambasted the “unsure” D-Chowk demonstration, saying that the occasion employees have been left demoralised and upset attributable to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s “disappearance” in the course of the protest.

Talking on a non-public information channel, Atif recalled the final week’s demonstrations within the federal capital and remarked that the PTI management ought to have clarified what the employees ought to do at D-Chowk.

His remarks come in opposition to the PTI’s final week’s protests which have been surrounded with controversy and ambiguity revolving round CM Gandapur’s disappearance after Islamabad police raided the KP Home within the federal capital.

The demonstration, as per the occasion, was for the “independence of the judiciary” — as the federal government goals to introduce constitutional amendments — and for the discharge of its founder Imran Khan jailed at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail for multiple yr.

“The employees get confused if the leaders give combined indicators,” remarked Atif, including that the occasion activists have been left upset attributable to Gandapur’s disappearance.

He additionally stated that everybody within the occasion was doubting one another for participating in double-dealing.

It’s to be famous that Gandapur, who was main the PTI employees’ march from his province, resurfaced within the KP Meeting after being incommunicado for a day claiming that he was contained in the KP Home all this time.

The Imran Khan-founded occasion since then has introduced holding one other protest in Islamabad on October 15 — the identical day the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Authorities is ready to start within the metropolis.

The announcement has drawn sturdy reactions from the ruling coalition with Defence Minister Khawaja Asif saying that the incumbent authorities wouldn’t let the nation be held hostage.

“Those that have a mindset to conspire in opposition to the nation ought to higher keep at dwelling as no miscreant will probably be allowed to disrupt the SCO Convention in Islamabad, stated Minister for Info Attaullah Tarar.

In the meantime, Pakistan Peoples Social gathering (PPP) chief Sherry Rehman stated the PTI’s try to carry a protest on October 15 would ship one message solely that the occasion put itself above Pakistan and it was able to endanger the nation’s repute in addition to safety at a time when the nation was internet hosting an enormous worldwide occasion.