ISLAMABAD: Tehreek Tahaffuz Aiyeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) Sunday called for talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan to resolve issues and sought a joint sitting of parliament to take the nation into confidence on the external and regional situation.
The opposition alliance’s head, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, presided over a meeting here at the residence of former senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, which discussed the key national issues and future strategy of the opposition parties.
A statement issued later said the meeting supported the position of the brotherly country Saudi Arabia on the sudden situation with neighboring Afghanistan and believes that the issues between the two countries should be resolved through dialogue and understanding.
The forum demanded that the government immediately convene a joint session of parliament on the external and regional situation and take the nation into confidence.
The Tehreek strongly condemned the statements of the federal government and federal ministers about interference and obstruction in the ongoing constitutional and legal process of transfer of power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The participants cautioned that any unconstitutional step will further complicate the precarious security situation in the province. They emphasized that the federal government will be responsible for the situation arising from any unconstitutional step.
“The Tehreek believes that the transfer of power and the election of a new chief minister are the constitutional and democratic rights of the PTI and demands the federal government to refrain from taking any unconstitutional step,” it was maintained.
The meeting condemned the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan to declare the members of the KP Assembly independent on the occasion of the election of chief minister and charged that this decision of the electoral body was a clear message of negation of democratic values and support for horse trading.
Concern was expressed over the wave of unrest and terrorism in the country, especially in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the leaders stated that the law-enforcement agencies had lost their credibility and demanded that the situation be improved in consultation with the provincial governments and the local people.
Among others, the meeting was attended by Salman Akram Raja, Secretary General of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf; Asad Qaiser, Secretary General of the Tehreek; Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, the opposition alliance’s Vice Chairman; Muhammad Zubair Umar, former governor of Sindh; MWM’s Allama Ahmed Iqbal Rizvi; the National Party’s Sajid Tareen, Zain Shah of the Sindh United Party; Ali Asghar Khan, Secretary General of PTI Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; Hussain Ahmed Yousafzai, Spokesperson for the Tehreek, Khalid Yousaf and Asad Abbas Naqvi.
