Mahmood Khan Achakzai, head of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party and the opposition alliance Tehreek-e-Tahafuz Ain, while commenting on the negotiations between the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, said that the current government does not have a legitimate mandate. Talking to the media in Islamabad, Mahmood Khan Achakzai said that what kind of negotiations are being held with a government that does not have a legitimate mandate? He said, “We will pray for the success of the negotiations, but prayers are not accepted where this is the case.” Mahmood Khan Achakzai said that Shahbaz Sharif is our friend, but he was also ready to become Pervez Musharraf’s prime minister. Mahmood Khan Achakzai said that Nawaz Sharif had dared to stop Shahbaz Sharif, but now Nawaz Sharif has also backed down. It should be noted that earlier Imran Khan had authorized Mahmood Khan Achakzai to negotiate with the government on his behalf. However, now PTI is directly negotiating with the government and its allied parties. Two rounds of these negotiations have been held, and now the possibility of PTI presenting written demands in the third round is being expressed. In the second round of negotiations to be held on January 2, PTI leaders had sought time to meet Imran Khan, who is imprisoned in Adiala Jail, so that the demands could be conveyed to the negotiation committee in writing.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has strongly criticized the protest held by the PTI in Islamabad on November 26 in the National Action Plan Apex Committee meeting in Islamabad on Friday, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has taken the stand that the Prime Minister’s criticism of the PTI on this forum was inappropriate. The Prime Minister said in his address that the storm of lies and distortion of facts that has been unleashed by social media as a result of the attack on Islamabad in the last two to four weeks is unprecedented in recent times. If this storm is not stopped, all our efforts will be in vain. He said that the poison being spread against Pakistan on the digital front, the agents sitting outside Pakistan, are enemies in the guise of friends, and the way they are campaigning on social media has become a big challenge in itself.