Achakzai's Role: Steering PTI Back Inside

Achakzai's role: steering PTI back inside

After months of drift, when the National Assembly last Friday finally reclaimed a formal opposition voice with the notification of Mahmood Khan Achakzai as Leader of the Opposition, the move ended a stalemate that had paralysed the lower house for over five months. However, the development also immediately reframed the political conversation: was this merely procedural closure, or the first signal of a broader recalibration aimed at pulling oppo…

Talks only possible if other side realises excesses committed: Achakzai

Mehmood Khan Achakzai • Newly appointed NA opposition leader terms preventing Imran from meeting his family a violation of fundamental rights• Urges political parties to decide whether ‘voice of majority’ or ‘undemocratic forces’ will be supreme SANN (Jamshoro): The leader of the country’s main opposition alliance believes that there can only be talks if the other side realises that excesses have been committed that need to be redressed. Dawn ca…

Achakzai urged to rise above loyalty, focus on country

ISLAMABAD, JAN 18 (APP/DNA): Minister of State for Religious Affairs Khail Das Kohistani on Sunday called on opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai to take an active role in dialogue under the constitutional framework, stressing that NFC-related reforms can only be introduced with the backing of all opposition parties, notably the PPP. While speaking to a local news channel, the state minister said that Opposition leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai s…

Dialogue impossible without justice, says Achakzai

Opposition leader and head of the Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) alliance, Mehmood Khan Achakzai, has said that political talks can only take place if the other side first accepts that serious excesses have been committed. Speaking to the media in Sann during the 122nd birth anniversary ceremony of Sindhi nationalist leader G.M. Syed, Achakzai said dialogue without accountability would be meaningless. He stressed that recognition of inj…