Habib Akram reveals why Imran Khan called off sit-in
Some 'common friends' told Imran, govt, Pervaiz Khattak to end conflict due to CPEC convoy
LAHORE: (Dunya News) – Senior journalist Habib Akram has on Friday revealed that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan called off his ‘Islamabad lockdown’ plan and the subsequent sit-in because of the intervention of certain ‘common friends’ of the government and PTI, reported Dunya News.
Talking on Dunya TV program ‘Khabar Yeh Hai’, Habib Akram said that the first convoy of containers from China entered Pakistan this week and it was bound for Gwadar when the tensions were at their peak in Islamabad. He said that ‘some common friends’ talked to the government, Imran Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak and they all responded positively.
When asked by anchor Uzma Nauman if the ‘common friends’ were from Pakistan army, senior analyst Haroon Rasheed said that the reports could be true and verifying them wasn’t impossible but it shouldn’t be debated.
He also revealed that according to his knowledge some ‘progressive’ journalists had recently visited Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) – London leader Altaf Hussain and assured him of their help. He also said that the journalists were on Indian payroll and they had assured Altaf Hussain that they wouldn’t let peace take roots in Pakistan. He also claimed to possess certain photographs of this meeting.
Habib Akram told in the program that the first convoy from china had already left and had now crossed Havelian. He added that some issues came to the knowledge of Pakistani authorities in this initial phase and the Chinese authorities also came to know of certain problems from their side. He said that these were only the initial issues and would soon be resolved.
