Want to meet COAS, ISI chief as PTI open for talks: CM Gandapur

Rawlapindi: Kyber Pakthunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur indicated on Monday that he wanted to meet the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief as part of a dialogue.   

His statement came after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) signalled to hold dialogues on multiple occasions to end political impasse.

Talking to journalists in Rawalpindi after meeting incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan in Adiala Jail, Gandapur said that the former prime minister has always offered dialogues, but nobody responded to Khan’s call for talks.

The KP CM made it clear that terms and conditions would be unchanged for the dialogues and said that the former ruling party sought restoration of its stolen mandate and the formation of a probe commission on the May 9 riots.

“I want to meet the army chief and the DG ISI,” Gandapur said, adding that he met the top military personalities at different events, clarifying that there was no one-on-one meeting held between them.

Lamenting the federal government on the newly announced anti-terrorism operation -- Azm-e-Istehkam, he claimed that there was no mention of any kind of [military] operation in the last apex committee meeting.