RAWALPINDI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur said on Tuesday that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan will decide on reconciliation with the establishment.
The chief minister said this after meeting the former prime minister, who is lodged in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on Tuesday.
Gandapur said both the establishment and the institutions “are ours” but the decision to reconcile with the establishment will be made by Khan, who is the only prime minister to have been ousted on a no-confidence motion.
Insisting on his strong stand against Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s government, the PTI leader said the government on Wednesday stole the mandate from his party.
“We will not reconcile with mandate thieves. We will create such a system that no one can steal that mandate in the future,” he said.
The KP CM said that the provincial government would maintain working relations with the federal government in future.
“The federal government has stolen our mandate and we will not compromise with vote stealers,” he claimed.
He also asked the Chief Justice to form a commission of inquiry to probe the events of May 9, when violent protests erupted in many parts of the country following the arrest of the PTI founder in a corruption case last year.
“Our workers are in prison. We demand that those who benefited from the May 9 riots be held accountable,” he added.
Speaking about the hooliganism and verbal assault on one party’s MP in the recent KP Assembly session, Gandapur accused PML-N MP Sobia Shahid of using the “woman card”.
“The woman was at fault but I apologized to her as CM,” he said.
