\u2022 Newly appointed NA opposition leader terms preventing Imran from meeting his family a violation of fundamental rights
\n\u2022 Urges political parties to decide whether \u2018voice of majority\u2019 or \u2018undemocratic forces\u2019 will be supreme<\/p>\n
SANN (Jamshoro): The leader of the country\u2019s main opposition alliance believes that there can only be talks if the other side realises that excesses have been committed that need to be redressed.<\/p>\n
Dawn caught up with Mehmood Khan Achakzai, the newly-appointed Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, at the residence of Syed Zain Shah on Saturday, where he had arrived to attend the 122nd birth anniversary celebrations of G.M. Syed.<\/p>\n
However, Mr Achakzai made it clear that he was speaking in his ca\u00ad\u00adpacity as leader of the Tehreek Tah\u00adafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) alliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t yet received the notification, that\u2019s why I will comment as TTAP leader,\u201d he said in response to a question about how he would manifest his role as the opposition leader in the assembly.<\/p>\n
On the subject of possible talks with the rulers to defuse prevailing political tensions, Mr Achakzai said, \u201cIf someone has the realisation that excesses have been committed, then there is recourse and treatment too. Let\u2019s then talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
The TTAP leader was adamant that denying Imran Khan\u2019s family access to him was a violation of fundamental rights, basic ethics, and humanity.<\/p>\n
Questioned about Rana Sanaul\u00adlah\u2019s claim that while PTI leaders want negotiations, but Mr Khan does\u00adn\u2019t, Mr Achakzai posed a counter-question: \u201cTalks on what issue? If someone robs the home of Saeen [Zain Shah] and loots everyone,\u201d he said, gesturing towards his surro\u00adundings, \u201cthen talks will be held [with the robbers] to recover the looted goods\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said everyone knows it was Imran Khan who won the elections with a resounding majority, and the fact that the most popular leader in the country was not even being al\u00ad\u00adlowed to meet his family while in prison, was deplorable.<\/p>\n
\u201cA car can be invented, not a political leader. A leader emerges from amongst the masses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Talking about his bitter past with the incarcerated PTI founder, he said it was no longer an issue since he and MWM chief Raja Nasir Abbas had joined hands with Mr Khan when he was in trouble.<\/p>\n
While his associates are being punished or offered bribes, \u201cI am one of those jumping in to help people in trouble\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2022 Newly appointed NA opposition leader terms preventing Imran from meeting his family a violation of fundamental rights \u2022 Urges political parties to decide whether \u2018voice of majority\u2019 or \u2018undemocratic forces\u2019 will be supreme SANN (Jamshoro): The leader of the country\u2019s main opposition alliance believes that there can only be talks if the other side […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}