Image Source : AP Imran Khan’s supporters in Pakistan protest towards rigging in elections
Islamabad: Jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will be a part of arms with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) to try to kind the governments within the Centre, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. This comes after PTI collaborated with Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) however failed to barter a take care of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).
PTI chief Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has mentioned the celebration has reached a “formal agreement” with the Sunni Ittehad Council and the identical can be submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan on Monday. “Our candidates in the National Assembly, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies will join the Sunni Ittehad Council,” he added.
“You know that there are 70 reserved seats in the National Assembly and there are 227 reserved seats in the entire country. These seats are only provided to political parties. Therefore, to protect our reserved seats and provide the cover to our members, we have reached a formal agreement under which all our candidates have joined the party and we will present this documentation before the ECP,” he added.
PTI’s PM candidate Omar Ayub Khan mentioned his celebration desires unity within the nation and subsequently party-backed candidates have determined to affix the Sunni Ittehad Council within the Centre and all provinces. “This is because the quota of reserved seats lies with political parties. Coming together with the Sunni Ittehad Council would increase the PTI’s strength in the National Assembly,” he mentioned, including that after becoming a member of the SIC and kind the federal government, the celebration’s first precedence can be to launch Imran Khan, his spouse Bushra Bibi, Shah Mahmood Qureshi and different members of PTI’s senior management.
Support for Imran Khan unconditional: SIC
Sunni Ittehad Council chief Hafiz Hamid Raza on Monday mentioned his celebration’s alliance with the PTI dates again practically eight years, Dawn reported. “I need to make clear that this isn’t a single-handed choice. It consists of the approval of PTI management and Imran Khan,” he mentioned. Raza added that SIC and Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen have been two events that had at all times opposed sectarian violence and didn’t consider in militancy. “I want to clarify one more thing that our support of Imran Khan and the PTI is unconditional and without any demand,” the SIC chief added.
The Imran Khan-led celebration has maintained that it has received 180 National Assembly seats within the February 8 elections and lots of of its seats have been “stolen”. Gohar mentioned the PTI received 115 seats in Punjab, 16 in Sindh, 42 in KP, and 4 in Balochistan. “In Balochistan, we have one seat; three are due. In Sindh, we did not get even a single seat. In Punjab, we are due about 50 seats,” he added.
PTI’s efforts to kind authorities
As its rivals Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have been set to kind a coalition authorities, PTI beforehand collaborated with the MWM in Punjab and on the federal stage. The successful impartial candidates needed to be a part of a celebration inside 3 days after the notification of the outcomes.
However, the take care of MWM seemingly fell by way of resulting from obvious criticism from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-based leaders of the PTI, who had opposed the concept on “sectarian grounds”, based on celebration insiders. However, this was not confirmed by the PTI on report.
A PTI chief advised Dawn that the MWM had not submitted a listing of reserved candidates to the ECP earlier than the elections, which may create issues for the merger. They claimed that the choice to align with the SIC was taken to keep away from any “adverse decisions” by the Election Commission of Pakistan.
The Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) rejected an alliance with PTI. JUI-F chief Fazlur Rehman categorically dismissed the prospect of forming an alliance with the Imran Khan-led celebration citing insurmountable variations. Despite this, PTI leaders vowed to kind governments, with Omar Ayub that 30 million votes have been polled for PTI-backed candidates even with out its electoral image of ‘bat’.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the place PTI-backed candidates received 84 seats, the celebration faces an uphill battle amid variations in merging PTI-Parliamentarians with the PTI-P faction, prompting outreach to different political entities such because the Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam-Nazryati and Tehreek-i-Inqilab.
Though impartial candidates backed by the celebration received the utmost variety of seats in Parliament, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) – have introduced that they may kind a coalition authorities after the February 8 elections resulted in a hung Parliament.
Imran’s beleaguered celebration acquired a significant enhance on Saturday when a senior authorities official in command of the election course of within the garrison metropolis of Rawalpindi alleged that rigging occurred and dragged the Chief Election Commissioner and the Chief Justice into it. Buoyed by the allegations of vote rigging, the PTI on Sunday demanded a judicial probe into the manipulation of the outcomes of the elections.
About Sunni Ittehad Council
The Sunni Ittehad Council, an alliance of Islamic political and regional events in Pakistan, was fashioned in 2009 by Sahibzada Hamid Raza. It teams politicians and clerics from Pakistan’s traditionalist Barelvi Muslim motion, also known as theological moderates within the Pakistani context, based on Dawn.
The Council rose to prominence by main demonstrations in assist of the killer of Salman Taseer, a governor who was killed a 12 months in the past for his criticism of anti-blasphemy legal guidelines. Taseer’s murderer, Mumtaz Qadri, was a Barelvi. At its rallies, the group maintained its criticism of the Taliban and issued a fatwa towards Taliban gunmen who tried to kill Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
A report revealed that the council acquired cash from the US, receiving $36,607 in 2009. A US diplomat mentioned that the embassy had given cash to the group to organise anti-Taliban rallies, however that it had since modified course and management by supporting Qadri.
(with PTI inputs)
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