Minister for Planning and Developing Ahsan Iqbal Sunday said he is convinced that innocent people were used as a tool to sabotage the upcoming visit of the Chinese president to Islamabad, adding that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is part of an international conspiracy against Pakistan’s development agenda.
The minister said that those staging sit-ins in the capital are doing the “politics of invasion” as they invaded the Parliament and other state buildings. He said the government wanted to resolve the issue through dialogue and the PTI dialogue committee was also satisfied after meeting government representatives on Saturday.
“But then all of a sudden, PTI Chairman Imran Khan directed his party workers to invade the state institutions in the Red Zone,” asserted Iqbal.
Iqbal said that the government has been exhibiting utmost restraint in the matter by keeping the doors of dialogue open and trying to stop protesting parties from taking the law in their own hands.
The minister said that the PTI dialogue committee seems powerless in front of Khan but expressed hope that PTI will return to the dialogue table instead of provoking people for extra-constitutional attempts.
The minister reiterated that the prime minister’s resignation is out of question.