Pakistan: PTI Leader Directs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government from Afghanistan

DID Press: Rana Sanaullah, political adviser to Pakistan’s prime minister, has claimed that Murad Saeed, a senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), is in Afghanistan and is directing the affairs of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial government from there.

Speaking on Wednesday, Sanaullah said Saeed, a former federal minister and prominent PTI figure, was residing in Afghanistan and influencing decisions made by the provincial government.

Sanaullah also alleged that Saeed had played a role in the appointment of Sohail Afridi as chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Referring to the failed negotiations between the Pakistani government and PTI, Sanaullah said Afridi and Saeed were among the main reasons the talks had collapsed.

He added that the government had entered the negotiations in good faith and, according to him, had accepted all the demands put forward by PTI. However, he claimed that Afridi and Saeed did not believe in resolving differences through dialogue with political figures.

Meanwhile, PTI chairman Gohar Ali Khan said the priority should be to establish why negotiations between the government and the party had failed.