No talks being held with establishment: Gohar

RAWALPINDI: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Monday said the party was not currently holding backdoor talks with anyone.

Talking to reporters at the Adiala jail, he said the party’s founder chairman Imran Khan was in no mood to hold a dialogue with the establishment and made it clear that no party representative had been authorized to hold the dialogue.

Though Imran has mandated the KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, Shibli Faraz and Omar Ayub to holds talks, no talks are being held right now, he added.

Gohar said if the PTI engaged in a dialogue, it would be formally announced. He said dialogue should be held with political parties, adding that engaging in talks did not mean power-sharing. He further said Imran did not believe in power-sharing but people’s politics.

He said Imran was ready to pardon those who had punished him but there won’t be any compromise on what happened to the workers and people.

Gohar said all the state institutions had to change themselves adding that perpetrators of crime should not go unpunished. “We come out for our rights. If we speak against them, then cases are registered against us,” he complained. The PTI leader sounded optimistic that all the actions taken against them would end on the court orders.

About making Foreign Minister Muhammad Ishaq Dar the deputy premier, he emphasized that there was no post of deputy prime minister in the Constitution. “The post of deputy prime minister was created by Asif Zardari, for which there is no mention in the law. We are already saying that these posts are being distributed among their own relatives.”

Meanwhile, the Election Commission has summoned Ali Amin Gandapur in his personal capacity for his alleged mis-declaration of statement of assets for the Fiscal Year 2022-23. Also, the PTI Monday vehemently condemned what it alleged a malicious agenda-oriented campaign against the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge Babar Sattar on the social media.

A PTI spokesperson, in a statement, also demanded that the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) take notice of the ‘unabated incidents of direct and indirect harassment and intimidation of judges of high courts’. He charged the government was responsible for this insulting and malicious campaign against Justice Babar Sattar, urging the chief justice of Pakistan to protect judges from threats so that they could deliver decisions based on law and the Constitution without any fear.

The spokesperson asserted that “undemocratic elements devoid of the concept of rule of law and the Constitution” were resorting to such shameful tactics to accomplish their nefarious agenda of destroying the judiciary after polluting the politics of the country.