October 7, 2024
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KP CM Gandapur reappears in assembly after ‘disappearance’

Governor Faisal Karim Kundi commented on KP CM’s missing reports and affirmed that “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister goes in hiding himself.”..reports Asian Lite News

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur reappeared in the KP assembly following a day-long ‘disappearance,” ARY News reported.

According to ARY News, after his surprising return to the provincial assembly, the members of the assembly warmly welcomed Gandapur. The KP CM expressed pride in representing his province and lauded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) protestors who stand with the party.

While addressing the assembly on Sunday, Gandapur expressed his pride in representing his province extended his support to the PTI, and affirmed, “I salute the people of Pakistan who stand beside the party founder.”

As per ARY News, Governor Faisal Karim Kundi commented on KP CM’s missing reports and affirmed that “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister goes in hiding himself.”

“He is enjoying and playing on both sides of the wicket. He is trying that the PTI’s founder does not get out of the jail,” the ARY News quoted Governor Kundi as saying.

KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur reportedly went missing while en route to participate in a protest in Islamabad. The senior leaders of PTI claimed that Gandapur has been detained, while the government denied the allegation and stated that Ali Amin Gandapur was not in any official custody, as per ARY News.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had warned the government of nationwide protests if Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur is not released within 24 hours, ARY News reported on Sunday.

The senior leaders of PTI claimed that Gandapur was detained, however, the government has rubbished the allegations stating that the KP CM is not in any official custody.

Speaking at the KP Assembly, Asad Qaiser expressed outrage over Gandapur’s alleged detention, labelling it a historically ‘unprecedented’ move. He also condemned the destructive vandalism at Islamabad’s KP House and stressed Gandapur’s swift release, along with the freedom of over 1,000 detained PTI workers, the ARY News reported.

Further, he criticised the government’s alleged attempts to silence the opposition, warning that PTI would boycott meetings in the National Assembly, Senate, and standing committees if ‘controversial’ constitutional amendments were introduced.

Referring to the ‘detention’, Qaiser questioned why there is no similar treatment for Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, drawing a comparison with Gandapur’s situation, the ARY News reported

The session on Sunday started after a delay of five hours, with KP Assembly Speaker Babar Saleem Swati in the chair.

On Sunday, around 300 PTI supporters reached the KP Assembly to mark their protests demanding Gandapur’s release. Some of them protested outside the building, while others chanted slogans from the public gallery, Dawn reported.

Speaker Swati began the session by requesting that PTI workers in the gallery to refrain from sloganeering and hooting, given the context of the meeting. (ANI)

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