——– PTI delegation meets Fazlur Rehman for talks, parties delegates hold combine presser
——– Election result suggests people’s endorsement of figures branded as ‘traitors’ by establishment, says Fazl
——– Barrister Saif says PTI, JUI-F to register joint protest against Feb 8 elections
——– Hafiz Hamdullah claims PTI, JUI-F have same case regarding Feb 8 elections not being free, fair
——– PML-N, PPP hold 2nd round of joint meetings between coordination committees
——– Khawaja Asif calls out double standards of politicians
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Long standing political rivalry seems to calm as PTI and JUI-F delegations join heads over elections outcomes and planning joint protests against results of February 8th elections.
PTI’s Barrister Saif has said that a party delegation met JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman on the instructions of party founder Imran Khan to contact all political parties which were aggrieved by the irregularities in the conduct of the elections. “PTI has announced that we will do a country-wide protest on Saturday and this process will continue because the JUI has also expressed doubts about the elections and their results and rejected them.
“We have a joint point on which we are united,” he said. Saif said the parties would struggle, talk and continue their movement and protests together till the people received their rights.
Meanwhile, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that the Feb 8 election results suggested that the people had endorsed those who were allegedly labelled as traitors by the establishment. He made the comments on a private TV show.
“If the establishment believed that the elections were fair and free, their narrative regarding the May 9 incident instantly stands invalidated,” he said.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman has claimed that former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-spymaster Lt Gen Faiz Hameed had guided all political parties regarding the no-confidence vote against Imran Khan and his government.
“They [Gen Bajwa and Gen Faiz] were in contact with all political parties regarding the no-confidence motion and they told us the way of going about it,” he said in an interview with Nadeem Malik.
When asked whether the move was a brainchild of the two generals, the JUI-F chief replied in the affirmative but added that ultimately, both the PPP and the PML-N supported the move.
In contrast, PML-N leader Khawaja Asif has called out the double standards of politicians who do not refrain from hurling corruption allegations at each other or using the religious card but they align together when their interests are at stake.
In a post on X, the former defence minister said on the one hand all the political parties were accusing each other of being beneficiaries of rigging and on the other hand they were talking about joint protests and even government formation.
“In these circumstances, if the people, who are watching us all, adopt the culture of moral and social degradation, who will be responsible for it?” he asked.
“Our first responsibility is the high moral education of the people by becoming a role model,” Asif concluded. “We are managing their moral decline by our actions.”
Meanwhile, Former finance minister Ishaq Dar has said that the second round of the PML-N and PPP joint meetings between their coordination committees was completed in which matters regarding government formation progressed.
In a post on X, the PML-N leader said it was decided that the third consultation meeting of the coordination committees would be held over the weekend.
Dar, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Senator Azam Nazeer Tarar and Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan participated in the meeting on behalf of PML-N while Murad Ali Shah, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Saeed Ghani, and Nadeem Afzal Chan took part from PPP’s side.
