Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Fawad Chaudhary said on Sunday that the party wants negotiations with the government to succeed but has a strategy in place in case the talks failed. The former information minister took to Twitter and said that “it is not possible that the Constitution is considered as a piece of garbage, the people as insects and the PTI sits silently”. He further called on the people to prepare “for a movement”. Read PTI moves SC against Naqvi’s appointment “Get ready for the movement, the movement is starting tomorrow with rallies in Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar, culminating in a historic long march,” he added. تحریک انصاف مذاکرات کی کامیابی چاہتی ہے لیکن ناکامی کی صورت میں حکمت عملی مرتب کرلی ہے، یہ نہیں ہو سکتا کہ آئین کو ردی کا ٹکڑا اور عوام کو کیڑے مکوڑے سمجھ لیا جائے اور تحریک انصاف خاموش بیٹھ جائے مذاکرات کی ناکامی کی صورت میں عوام بڑی تحریک کیلئے تیار ہو جائیں، تحریک کا آغاز کل… — Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) April 30, 2023 After months of political bickering, the ruling coalition and the PTI leaders sat across the table for talks on April 27 that had rekindled hopes for breaking the ongoing political and constitutional impasse in the country. In the first formal interaction since the removal of former prime minister Imran Khan through a vote of no-confidence in April last year, leaders of the coalition parties and the PTI met at the Parliament House. Both sides contemplated on developing a consensus on simultaneously holding general elections across the country. The efforts to find common ground through dialogue continued on April 28 as not only the talks remained on track but the leaders of both sides refused to let their differences come in the way of forging a consensus on general elections. During the discussions, the PTI sought an early date for the dissolution of the National Assembly and the remaining two provincial assemblies – Sindh and Balochistan –so that elections could be called on a single day in July this year. Read More Elahi booked on terror charges The government side, however, said that the government should complete its constitutional term, adding that the elections could be held in August or September. It had sought time for seeking an opinion of the allied parties’ leadership by Tuesday. Among other things, the PTI wants the government not to present the budget but the latter is insisting on it. Imran lays out ‘movement’ plan The PTI chief presented the party’s plan of holding rallies and said that on May 1 (tomorrow), the PTI will start its rally from Lahore, which Imran will lead. “I will start the Lahore rally from Liberty and will walk till Nasir Bagh,” the PTI chief stated yesterday. میں اپنی ساری قوم کو پیغام دےرہا ہوں، یکم مئی بروز سوموار، لیبرڈے ہے، اسلام آباد، پشاور اور لاہور میں ہم اپنے مزدوروں کیلئے دوپہر 1بجے ریلی نِکالیں گے، لاہور ریلی کی قیادت میں خود کرونگا، ریلی کا دوسرا مقصد ہے آئین بچاؤ، پاکستان بچاؤ! چیئرمین عمران خان pic.twitter.com/Arn2R4jScW — PTI (@PTIofficial) April 30, 2023 He furthered that simultaneously, PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and senior leader Pervez Khattak will lead rallies from Islamabad and Peshawar, respectively. The ousted premier invited lawyers of the country to be a part of the movement and said that the motive behind the rallies is to “save the Constitution and save the country". It is pertinent to note that on Saturday Imran had said that if the government dissolves the National Assembly by May 14 and goes towards elections, we are ready to accept the condition of holding simultaneous polls in the entire country, but malice is evident in the matter of dissolving the assembly after the budget. Addressing the senior PTI leaders, he had said, “If you [the coalition rulers] want to pass the budget, first win the election and the people will give you their mandate.”
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