ISLAMABAD:
An alliance of opposition parties — Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Ain — has announced a two-day all parties conference (APC), which will be held in Islamabad on July 31 and August 1 as part of its professed struggle to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and law.
“We will hold an APC and invite people from state institutions as well. We will step out for the sake of this country. Whatever issue concerns any section of society, we will support it unconditionally,” said head of the alliance, Mahmood Khan Achakzai during a press conference in Islamabad.
Achakzai, who is also the chief of the PkMAP, claimed that the opposition’s alliance is the first political alliance not formed at the behest of any institution. It is also not created for spectacle or drama, he added.
According to the politician, the alliance would continue until the country has a truly impartial polls oversight authority, supremacy of the Constitution, and a parliament that is the true source of power.
Referring to former prime minister Imran Khan, he said the leader of the party that won the general elections of February 8 was jailed and a government was formed by terrorizing the people. This is an insult to governance, he added.
Achakzai claimed that anti-terrorism courts (ATC) sentenced both adults and minors to ten years in prison in the May 9 cases. “We will go from street to street and alley to alley in protest against this government. We will protest from Gilgit-Baltistan to Gwadar, but we will neither use abusive language nor violence,” he said.
PTI’s Salman Akram Raja also addressed the media, stating that the country needed to be set on the right path as it could not be run through the use of force.
“Our movement for the protection of the Constitution’ is constitutional and ideological. We do not intend violence. No one should use this movement as a pretext to impose more repression. Our people have been punished solely because they were affiliated with the PTI,” he said.
