Govt, PTI in contact over Nov 24th protest call: Waqas

PESHAWAR: PTI Central information secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram has confirmed that the government had been talking to party leadership November 24 protest called by Party founded and Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Addressing a press conference at Peshawar Press Club, he said that Khyber Pakthunkhwa chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur had approached party founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan to ask his permission for holding talks with the government.

Imran Khan was of the opinion that there was no harm in talking to the government if the latter accepts the three main demands of the PTI, said Mr Akram.

It is for the first time that the PTI central information secretary has accepted that their had been contacts between the government and his party over the forthcoming protest to be held by the PTI on November 24th.

About the government preparations to stop the protest march to Islamabad with the deployment of heavy security personnel, the PTI leader said that whatever the government wants to do the PTI would hold on its protest rallies to Islamabad and stage a sit-in there till the acceptance of its demands.

He also said that Imran’s wife Bushra Bibi had no intention of joining politics and she was just conveying her husband’s message to the local party leaders to participate in the Nov 24th protest with at least ten to fifteen thousand workers.