Contacts between the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Allama Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) have gained momentum over the issue of a joint movement against the government.
Qadri has tasked his PAT Secretary General Khurrum Nawaz Gandapur to contact the anti-government, dissident PML-N members, and the people for their support to their post-Muharram movement.
Gandapur has also met Awami Muslim League Chairman Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, which has reported to be quite successful, as Ahmed has assured that the movement’s Potohar chapter would be fully supported.
PAT’s contacts with PTI and Tehreek-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen are also underway, while the PTI has asked for grace period to deliberate over the invitation, necessitated by the KPK government’s pressure over the federal government to hold parlays with the Taliban; especially in the aftermath of recent killing of TTP terrorist Hakeemullah Mehsud.
The KP government is seriously contemplating to suspend NATO supplies in the province, over which PAT has ‘granted’ the full month of Muharram to deliberate over the offer.
