Incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has assigned an \u201cimportant responsibility\u201d to former president Dr Arif Alvi, who had been making efforts to bridge the gap between the establishment and former ruling party, revealed the party\u2019s Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan on Thursday. The development came a day after the PTI founding chairman turned down the military\u2019s demand to apologise for the May 9 events and distanced his party from the violent protests that broke out in the country last year soon after his arrest. Addressing a press conference flanked by Alvi outside the Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Ayub said: \u201cThe PTI founder has assigned important responsibility to Arif Alvi [during his maiden meeting with Khan after leaving the Presidency].\u201d For his part, the former president said: \u201cThe PTI founder is ready to render [more] sacrifices [for the country]\u201d Without disclosing the nature of the \u201cimportance responsibility\u201d the PTI leader said: \u201cI have received instructions from the PTI founder.\u201d Moving on to the police crackdown against the PTI leadership in the backdrop of the May 9 mayhem, Alvi said: \u201cSome people of the PTI might be involved [in May 9 violence] but the entire party was crashed.\u201d The May 9 violence was triggered almost across the country after the deposed prime minister Khan\u2019s arrest in the \u00a3190 million settlement case last year. Hundreds of PTI workers and leaders were put behind bars for their alleged involvement in violence and attacks on military installations. Dozens of the PTI leaders parted ways with the party or quit politics after the incident. During the protests, the miscreants targeted the civil and military installations including \u2014 the Jinnah House and the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. The military had termed May 9 \u201cBlack Day\u201d and decided to try the protesters under the Army Act. Alvi further said that their mandate was stolen in the February 8 general elections, adding that they had evidence about it. The former ruling party believed that their mandate was stolen as PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan last week said: \u201cWe won the 180 seats in the [February 8] elections. Our seats were given to other parties through Form 47.\u201d The former president termed the PML-N-led coalition government a product of \u201cForm 47\u201d. Responding to a question about the ISPR\u2019s presser, Alvi said: \u201cI also stated yesterday that the wrongdoer should ask for pardon, not the oppressed.\u201d Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) Major General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry Tuesday demanded “those involved in the May 9 violent protests to apologise” and shun politics of \u201canarchy\u201d before holding any dialogue. Commenting on the presser, Alvi while speaking to the media outside the Punjab Assembly, emphasised the need for an impartial investigation into the May 9 incidents. \u201cThe oppressor should seek forgiveness. Forgiveness is the only answer to all disputes.” \u201cThose having real powers\u201d should initiate the dialogue process, he had reiterated. Referring to his party\u2019s alleged popularity among the masses, the former president said that \u201ca new logic of democracy is being presented\u201d by saying that \u201c70% people were wrong and a few people are right\u201d. Stressing the need for dialogues to steer the country out of political crisis Alvi said: \u201c[The establish] will have to talk to the people [PTI] having 70% mandate.\u201d It is pertinent to mention here that Dr Ali has been trying to bridge the gap between the establishment and the PTI for a long. In his maiden presser after leaving the Aiwan-e-Sadr in March, Alvi said: \u201cI tried to resolve things from every angle\u2026 Even now, I\u2019m trying to resolve things.\u201d In January 2023 too, Alvi offered to mediate between the Shehbaz Sharif-led then government and PTI to lower the rising political temperature in the country. \u201cI have tried to end such misunderstandings,\u201d Alvi had said \u201cBeing the president, it is my responsibility to keep this federation together. Cooperation is better than discords for Pakistan and such is also my advice.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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