Tariq Saeed Peshawar
The Awami National Party on Thursday politely turned down Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf request to hold parleys with the former under the pretext that ANP believes certain forces helped PTI becoming a ruling party in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through rigging and stealing ANP mandate.
It was reported that the PTI senior leader and former speaker National Assembly Asad Qaisar contacted Awami National Party’s central secretary General Mian Iftekhar Hussein and invited him to hold talks in order to formulate strategy to hold protests against the rigged elections and also become part of the future government in the KP.
Mian Iftekhar, however, is reported to have expressed his Party’s inability to hold parleys with PTI saying it will not be appropriate at this stage to hold talks with PTI as his party was made to lose in KP in order to bring PTI into rule in the province.
“PTI was given the government in KP by rigging; in this situation negotiations with the PTI are not suitable,” he said.
