{"id":532263,"date":"2026-02-20T04:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=532263"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:35:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:35:49","slug":"imran-khan-doesnt-want-to-become-nawaz-sharif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/imran-khan-doesnt-want-to-become-nawaz-sharif\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Imran Khan doesn\u2019t want to become Nawaz Sharif\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nWith Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan behind bars for more than two years, a leader from the former ruling party has said that he doesn\u2019t want to be released via a deal like Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif.\u201d When you sit in these kinds of negotiations, you have to give many concessions too. The biggest example before us is of Nawaz [Sharif],\u201d PTI\u2019s Barrister Umair Niazi said during a response to a question \u201c. \u201cHe paid a price for those negotiations; he had to leave practical politics, had to leave the country, go into exile, and had to sign a paper deal,\u201d the PTI leader said as to why Imran didn\u2019t want to be released.<br \/>\nResponding to host Hamid Mir\u2019s question whether Imran was not making a deal because he doesn\u2019t want to become Nawaz, Barrister Niazi said: \u201cIt is exactly that kind of situation\u201d. Barrister Niazi\u2019s remarks come as the PTI, since 2023, has been at odds with the ruling coalition and has even marched multiple times to Islamabad in bid to secure Imran\u2019s release.<br \/>\nHowever, such attempts proved to be futile and were met with crackdown and arrests by the authorities. Apart from agitation, the PTI also held multiple rounds of negotiations, mediated by National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, in early 2025.<br \/>\nThe parleys, too, were inconclusive and were eventually derailed after the former ruling party quit the talks, citing the government\u2019s failure to constitute judicial commissions on May 9, 2023, and November 26, 2024, events within the seven-day deadline in line with its \u201ccharter of demands\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD With Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan behind bars for more than two years, a leader from the former ruling party has said that he doesn\u2019t want to be released via a deal like Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif.\u201d When you sit in these kinds of negotiations, you have to give many 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