To the public’s surprise, the ‘missing’ Speaking of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa CM, Ali Amin was traced back. It entered the KP Assembly chamber on Sunday after the PTI pressured the KP government to produce him within 24 hours.
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Gandapur Welcomed Amid Claims of Kidnapping as KP Assembly Demands New CM
Gandapur was welcomed with cheers or applause as he entered into the building.
Earlier in the evening, the provincial assembly adopted a resolution to present a chief minister within 24 hours.
PTI’s Asad Qaiser had earlier claimed the government has ‘kidnapped’ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur today from KP House in Islamabad and threatened to protest across Pakistan if the CM is not produced in the house within 24 hours.
His statement came ahead of the emergency KP Assembly session which was earlier fixed for 2 pm today but delayed due to uncertain position of Gandapur.
Qaiser said while talking to media persons outside the KP Assembly that if the KP chief minister is not produced within 24 hours, the PTI will protest in every city of the country.
PTI Vows Protest After Gandapur’s Alleged Kidnapping
We want to make it very clear that this is not an act of regressing against Gandapur or any other individual but against the entire country. If it has happened to the PTI, it will happen to you too because neither the chief executive of a province is secure.”
Qaiser added that through information his party has gathered, Gandapur has been kidnapped from KP House as evidenced by the damages inside the facility.
He said that more than 1000 PTI workers had been arrested so far.
“We do not want to cause anarchy, we want to demonstrate, we want to voice out, we want to exercise our rights,”Qaiser reaffirmed. “The PTI would go on protest till its last drop of blood and with no bounds as protesting was its constitutional as well as legal right.”
Yesterday, many protesters arrived in Islamabad when PTI staged a protest because its chairman, Imran Khan, who is in jail, is now calling for a peaceful protest.
Gandapur Evades Blockade, Goes Missing Amid Protest Confusion
Another group of protestors led by the caravan of CM Gandapur reached the capital through Taxila Nicholson after they overwhelmed the police blockade.
The CM then escaped from the party workers in Islamabad and shifted to the KP House from where he went ‘missing’ and many even thought he had been arrested.
PTI leaders gave different statements on the news of alleged arrest while some of them said he was detained, KP government spokesperson Barrister Muhammad Saif said on X that the CM had not been formally arrested. But he further stated that a “starting a large number of Rangers and police are deployed at the KP House.”
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