ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said on Wednesday that there are many people in the party who want to weaken it and get it humiliated.
In a statement, he expressed complete ignorance about any parleys with the government and said: “I don’t know whether or not any dialogue is going on with someone. I have to talk about the law, the Constitution and rights of people.”
He maintained that there was a direction from party founder chairman Imran Khan that senior lawyers and members of parliament belonging to PTI should be present during hearings of related cases. Salman Akram contended that it was time to reveal the names of those who, for any reason, do not attend hearings of cases concerning the party founder chairman to express solidarity with him.
He also complained about failure to deposit money by the majority of parliamentarians in party funds. He explained that the party founder had given an order that funding should be arranged from within the party and they had thrashed out a mechanism for PTI senators, MNAs and MPAs.
Meanwhile, PTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram strongly criticised the federal government on Wednesday, describing the latest developments as a “remarkable testament to sustained policy failure that the nation can no longer afford to endure.”
“This is not governance; it is a continuing cycle of expensive crisis management without any genuine resolution. Pakistan LNG Limited is, yet again, forced to scramble for two emergency LNG cargoes at nearly $19 per mmbtu amid Hormuz tensions and delayed supplies from Qatar,” he charged.
“With crude oil at $126 per barrel and the weekly oil import bill surging from $300 million to $800 million, fuel prices have risen by up to 55 percent. Yet the government continues to offer only short-term panic measures,” he said.
