LAHORE: Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari says Imran Khan has been begging for negotiations with PML-N President Nawaz Sharif for the past one-and-a-half years.

“Nawaz Sharif doesn’t even consider it appropriate to mention Imran Khan’s name. Mr Khan is ungrateful, backstabber and opportunistic. No one is willing to sit with him.

He is desperately seeking negotiations but the PML-N has no interest,“ Ms Bokhari said here on Monday.

She said the PTI’s political orphans were creating imaginary scenarios on their own.

“One who refers to one’s benefactors as Mir Jafar cannot be trusted. Nawaz Sharif’s politics and vision are solely focused on the development and prosperity of Pakistan,” she claimed and criticised those who failed to understand the politics of the Sharifs.

She also accused PTI leader Murad Saeed of sitting abroad and making government decisions, such as determining who should be in the cabinet or who should be removed.

IPP: Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party central information secretary Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said the political forces should operate strictly within the parliamentary framework and refrain from targeting state institutions.

“The role of politics is not to undermine the state. Pakistan is currently navigating a critical juncture and it is essential for political entities to unite as economic stability cannot be achieved without political stability.”

Ms Awan said the youth on social media was being misguided and had been operating as an unguided force to weaken the state institutions.

“When politics begins to target armed checkpoints, it poses a threat to the state,” Ms Awan declared.

Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2024