- Govt able to cope with Nov 24 protest, says Asif.
- PTI needs to do politics on “lifeless our bodies”, he says.
- Asif says, “They [PTI] need to take lifeless our bodies to KP.”
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has revealed that almost all of PTI leaders needed the previous ruling social gathering’s deliberate demonstration in Islamabad on November 24 to be cancelled.
His remarks got here amid the looming showdown as the federal government all set to thwart any try and enter the federal capital by the protesters and the PTI remained resolute in its plan for the “do-or-die” protest.
Speaking to journalists, the defence minister mentioned: “I can identify these PTI leaders who needed the sit-in to be cancelled.”
The federal government has devised its motion plan in reference to the November 24 protests by the previous ruling social gathering, he added.
The minister warned the PTI management towards bringing armed teams to the federal capital.
“In the event that they [PTI] are bringing armed teams [to invade the federal capital], the federal government would deal them in the identical method,” he warned.
Taking a dig on the PTI management, Asif mentioned that “they need to do politics on lifeless our bodies”.
“They needed to take lifeless our bodies to KP and make it a difficulty and the federal government needs to keep away from it.”
He warned the PTI that they need to not take it as the federal government’s weak point.
Earlier within the day, Inside Minister Mohsin Naqvi knowledgeable PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan that no gathering, sit-in or protest might be allowed within the metropolis within the mild of Islamabad Excessive Court docket’s (IHC) order.
The minister mentioned intimately the continuing political state of affairs within the wake of PTI’s protest name for tomorrow in a telephonic dialog with Gohar.
“We’re certain to comply with the IHC’s orders, can’t permit any rally, gathering or sit-in,” the safety czar informed the PTI chairman.
The Islamabad Excessive Court docket on Thursday directed the authorities involved to not permit the previous ruling social gathering to carry its protest within the federal capital, in adherence to the newly enacted peaceable meeting legislation.
The Peaceable Meeting and Public Order Act, 2024 empowers the district Justice of the Peace to manage and ban public assemblies within the federal capital, proposing a punishment of as much as three years or/and an unspecified advantageous to the members of an “illegal meeting”.
In as we speak’s dialog, Naqvi informed Gohar {that a} high-level delegation from Belarus is about to reach in Pakistan on November 24, whereas the Belarusian president will attain on November 25 for an official go to. The overseas delegation will keep within the federal capital until November 27.
Insiders mentioned that the PTI chairman, after the assembly, requested the minister for time to have a session with the social gathering on this regard.
“I’ll replace you with the ultimate choice after session,” he mentioned whereas chatting with Naqvi.
In the meantime, PTI’s political committee final evening deliberated on the problems of cancelling tomorrow’s protest march, conserving the IHC orders in view.
Based on some PTI leaders, who have been a part of the final evening deliberations, majority of the committee members have been in favour of calling off the November 24 protest march, in accordance with The Information report.
They have been of the view that dialogue with the federal government needs to be given an opportunity. It was determined by the PTI’s political committee to current this selection of cancelling the protest name and giving dialogue an opportunity to the jailed social gathering’s founder Imran Khan for a choice.