ISLAMABAD
\nPTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has intervened to stop Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi from proceeding with a controversial plan to raise an \u201cImran Khan Release Force.\u201d
\nParty sources told that the intervention, both direct and through senior party figures, came after the chief minister\u2019s public announcement that a dedicated force would be created to secure the release of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan.
\nSources disclosed that Barrister Gohar conveyed a blunt warning (to the KP CM) that the creation of any entity described as a \u201cforce,\u201d particularly one requiring members to take an oath for a political objective, could be construed as unconstitutional, unlawful, and potentially falling within the ambit of militancy.
\nThe PTI chairman is said to have also engaged opposition leaders, including Mehmood Khan Achakzai and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, in an apparent effort to build political consensus within the PTI and the opposition alliance against the move, reflecting the seriousness with which the proposal is being viewed in political circles.
\nAccording to insiders, the KP chief minister had planned to administer an oath to members of the proposed force on February 22. However, the move was quietly shelved at the last minute following internal objections, with indications that the chief minister intends to take the oath after Ramazan.
\nSenior PTI figures privately concede that the plan triggered alarm within the party\u2019s central leadership, which fears that forming a quasi-organisational \u201cforce\u201d could expose the party to legal action and accusations of promoting confrontation.
\nBarrister Gohar reportedly advised that if mobilisation for Khan\u2019s release was necessary, the party should instead establish lawful political committees at provincial, regional, and district levels \u2014 a strategy historically employed for political movements without inviting constitutional complications
\nThe issue also dominated deliberations at a recent meeting of PTI\u2019s political committee, where participants were instructed to avoid public commentary on the matter, suggesting an attempt by the leadership to contain a potentially damaging internal controversy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has intervened to stop Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi from proceeding with a controversial plan to raise an \u201cImran Khan Release Force.\u201d Party sources told that the intervention, both direct and through senior party figures, came after the chief minister\u2019s public announcement that a dedicated force would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-533238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n