KARACHI
\nPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Saeed Ghani has said that PTI chairman Imran Khan wants to control opposition by appointing army chief of his choice.
\nAddressing the press conference in Karachi on Sunday, he said that Chairman PTI and Indian media are on the same page. \u201cThe country is above the party interest. Not even a fruit seller gives a receipt like the one shown for the watch.\u201d
\nSaeed Ghani has said that the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has made a mockery of the democratic system in Pakistan by making the vicious attempt of exerting his own will on the issue of appointment of the new army chief.
\nThe Sindh Labour Minister said that Pakistan\u2019s reputation at the global level had been tainted by the way the PTI Chairman had attempted to set a bad precedent for appointments against key state positions.
\nGhani said the latest long march started by the PTI Chairman had just one objective i.e. undue attempt by Imran Khan to impose his own will on the issue of key appointments in Pakistan. He said the PTI Chairman wanted that his favourites should hold key positions in the country to enable him to victimise his political opponents.
\nHe was of the view that Imran Khan should be arrested for his proven involvement in the attempt to undermine the constitution. \u201cIt is beyond my comprehension as to why the federal government has been desisting from taking the due lawful action against Imran Khan after he emerged as a security threat for the state,\u201d he said.
\nThe Sindh Labour Minister said that Imran Khan had opted to bury his own politics by deciding to come to Rawalpindi on November 26 for a protest. He said the long march of the PTI Chairman would remain unsuccessful as Imran Khan had nothing to do with the upcoming appointment of the new army chief.
\nHe mentioned that as per the constitution appointment of the new Chief of Army Staff was solely the prerogative of the Prime Minister as the PM could elevate anyone among the senior most serving generals as the new army chief.
\n\u201cAppointment and retirement of the army chief is a routine matter in the country but Imran Khan has been trying to set a precedent that key appointments in the army should be made according to his will,\u201d he said. He lamented that Imran Khan deemed the persons unpatriotic who were appointed against the key state positions by the incumbent PM.
\nHe was of the view that the latest long march of the PTI was an attempt to render controversial the upcoming key appointments in the country. He said that although the PTI claimed that it had become the most popular political force in the country but Imran Khan still needed backdoor means to come again into power.
\nHe lamented that Imran Khan wanted to influence the media, judiciary, and other state institutions to gain access to power. Ghani, who is also PPP Karachi President, said that a historical public meeting would be held in the famous Nishtar Park of the city on November 30 to celebrate the 55th foundation day of the party.
\nHe mentioned that PPP\u2019s workers had warmly welcomed the decision of the party leadership to award a ticket to senior politician Waqar Mehdi to contest the upcoming Senate by-poll in Sindh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KARACHI Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Saeed Ghani has said that PTI chairman Imran Khan wants to control opposition by appointing army chief of his choice. Addressing the press conference in Karachi on Sunday, he said that Chairman PTI and Indian media are on the same page. \u201cThe country is above the party interest. Not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3013],"class_list":{"0":"post-296435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-saeed-ghani"},"yoast_head":"\n