PM calls for peace, progress as PTI gears up for much-hyped power show in Islamabad
Addressing apex committee meeting, PM calls for prioritising country's progress over "protests and sit-ins"
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz on Tuesday called for prioritising peace and progress of the country over "protests and sit-ins" as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) all set to march on Islamabad on November 24.
Addressing the National Action Plan's apex committee meeting, PM Shehbaz said that they should think rationally if the sit-in was in the country’s interest.
“We have to decide whether [one should be] staging sit-ins or long marches or work for the [country’s] progress."
He said that the country’s economy was gradually heading towards stability due to the collective efforts of the federation, provinces, institutions and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General General Asim Munir.
“Political and economic stability are interlinked,” he added.
Today's meeting chaired by PM Shehbaz was attended by civilian and military leadership including all provincial chief ministers, the army chief, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, Military Intelligence, Intelligence Bureau chiefs, key federal ministers, and others to discuss the security situation in light of surge in terror attacks in the country.
Earlier, Adviser to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said that Gandapur would table the PTI’ demands in the apex committee meeting.
Speaking on Geo News' programme "Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath" on Monday, Barrister Saif confirmed that CM Gandapur will take up PTI's demands including the "do-or-die" protest, in the high-level meeting.
Gandapur had told The News that the PTI founder and the party were bound to be discussed in the apex committee meeting revolving around the law and order situation and the National Action Plan.
The chief minister, while referring to the ongoing tensions between the PTI and the establishment, underscored that the situation was neither in the interest of the party, the country or the institution.