The PTI’s offer to establish a joint government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) was rejected by the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday. The JI attributed its decision to the PTI’s intention to restrict the scope of its alliance to the provincial level.
A day after the PTI said that it would join forces alongside the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) in the Centre and Punjab and align with the JI in the KP, JI’s Central Naib Emir Liaqat Baloch made the announcement.
“Imran has given his approval for a coalition involving two parties.” For the reserved seats, we will create coalitions with the MWM in the Centre and Punjab and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) in KP. We have already started working on these decisions; they are his, and we will carry them out,” PTI’s Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan had previously stated.
JI’s Baloch claimed in a Twitter post today that his party met with the PTI following the polls on February 8 to come to an agreement on the next course of action.
جماعت اسلامی کے مرکزی نائب امیر لیاقت بلوچ نے مرکزی مشاورت اور میڈیا سے گفتگو کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ 8 فروری 2024ء کے انتخابات کے بعد پاکستان تحریک انصاف کے قائدین نے جماعت اسلامی سے رابطہ کیا کہ جماعت اسلامی اور تحریک انصاف نئی صورتحال میں مشترکہ حکمت عملی پر اتفاق کرے۔ اس کے فوری بعد… pic.twitter.com/ncs0cXbfGz
— Jamaat e Islami Pakistan (@JIPOfficial) February 14, 2024
He said the JI had expressed its dissatisfaction with the poll results but praised the MNAs supported by the PTI who were elected by popular vote.
Baloch stated that in terms of party, constitutional, and parliamentary protection, the JI had also extended its unqualified cooperation with these MNAs.
The leader of JI stated, “The PTI welcomed it but made it clear in the end that they only wanted an arrangement for the government in KP.”
“JI has determined that forming a coalition with the PTI at the national level would prove beneficial for the country, but if the PTI has shifted its stance, they are free to resolve their differences with whoever they choose in KP,” Baloch continued.
Qaiser Sharif, a spokesman for the Jammu and Kashmir (JI), asserted sooner in the day that the PTI had “shifted its position” on their intention to work with the next government.
The parties have decided to “cooperate at national level in the national interest,” according to Sharif.
“They can work with anybody they like to resolve their problems in KP. “I’d be happy to,” he continued.
SOURCE: DAWN NEWS
