Islamabad: In a high-level meeting of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur, PTI leader Shibli Faraz and advocate Saif asked party leaders to wait for details of the recently announced military operation. before making any decisions.
Sources told Geo News that the meeting held at KP House in Islamabad was briefed on the National Action Plan Supreme Committee meeting and the meeting with jailed PTI founder Imran Khan.
Gandapur, who attended the meeting of the Apex Committee as a representative of his province, said the forum only discussed security and stability issues in Pakistan.
According to sources, he briefed the meeting for 35 minutes and presented his arguments in support of his position, waiting for the details of Operation Azm-e-Istehkam.
At the Apex Committee meeting last Saturday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif authorized a nationally enhanced and strengthened Operation Azm-e-Istehkam against terrorism to turn up the heat on militants targeting the country. Pakistan.
The Prime Minister (PMO) said that the new drive against terrorism was approved by the consensus of all stakeholders including the provinces, Gilgit Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Opposition parties, PTI, Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam Fazl (JUI-F), Miami National Party (ANP) and others, worried about the launch of a new military operation, demanded a vote of confidence before such a decision could be passed on. parliament.
The source said the PTI leaders were upset because the KP Chief Minister did not openly oppose the military operation.
According to sources, Gandapur should wait for the details of the operation to come out and oppose it.
This military operation was opposed by several leaders including Omar Ayub, Barrister Gohar, Asad Qaisar, Shandana Gulzar and other senior leaders. Faraz, Saif and Gandapur chose to wait for the details.
PTI founders have always opposed military operations and they stand by their stand, saying that many of them were involved in the incident.
The government cleared the air of misunderstanding
The PMO said late Monday that “there is no large-scale military operation” in the country.
“Azm-e-Istehkam is a new misconception to maintain stability and compared to kinetic practices like Zarb-e-Azab, Rah-e-Najaat and others,” a statement issued by PMM.
It is said that earlier kinetic operations were conducted to physically remove terrorists from specific locations and destroy state records. “This operation requires mass evacuation of the local population and continuous cleaning of the affected areas.”
The federal government has said that there is no free area in the country because the ability of terrorist organizations to carry out large-scale organized operations in Pakistan has been drastically reduced by previous kinetic operations.
Operation Azm-e-Istehkam is said to be a multi-domain, multi-agency and holistic national vision to support stability in Pakistan.
