Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday announced that he would reveal the date for the party’s much-anticipated long march on coming Friday, saying that he was not expecting any “meaningful result from backchannel talks”. “Political parties always hold backdoor talks but I do not think the ongoing talks will have any meaningful outcome,” the PTI chief said while addressing a news conference, flanked by party leader Azam Swati in Islamabad on Saturday. “Therefore,” he said, “they will not call early elections,” adding through an official statement that holding talks with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was fruitless. Imran also lashed out at the “imported government” for the inhuman treatment that was meted out to its political opponents. Imran maintained that the unknown persons pick up people over their tweets and force them to give a statement against him.

Source: The Express Tribune October 23, 2022 06:16 UTC