PTI suffers setback after Jamaat-e-Islami in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa rejects a “alliance offer.”

A significant development is that Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) has declined to work with the PTI. The PTI had previously asked for the religious-political party’s support in order to accommodate its independent candidates who had won the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly elections on February 8.

The deputy emir of JI, Liaqat Baloch, said on Wednesday that the decision was made following internal party discussions on the PTI’s request.

He stated that the PTI was prepared to work with the JI on a national scale throughout Pakistan, and that they were simply asking for help in building the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This implies that, unless it can find a substitute, the PTI may not be able to win any of the assembly’s reserved seats, which are divided into four seats for minorities and 26 seats for women.

The PTI is in a difficult situation since the electoral Commission of Pakistan (ECP) took away the party’s “bat” electoral emblem, requiring it to field candidates as independents who ran on other symbols.

It implies that the PTI will not receive any of the reserved seats for women and minorities unless its members join one of the parties running in the recently concluded elections, even though the party was able to elect a sizable number of members to the National Assembly and the provincial legislatures in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The JI’s decision coincides with the PTI’s choice to go with Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) for the remainder of the nation.

Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, the chairman of MWM, praised the PTI’s decision to join forces with his party on Tuesday. The PTI founder’s own party is called the MWM. He is free to make any decisions he wants about this celebration. We will all agree to accept it without conditions.

The PTI had earlier said that it will form the government in the Centre and Punjab alongside the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), citing approval of an alliance by the party founder, according to spokesperson Raoof Hasan.
The PTI was planning to establish an alliance with the JI in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Ali Amin Gandapur had been nominated as a candidate for the chief minister position, he said, adding that negotiations will be held with all parties save the PPP, the PML-N, and the MQM.

Even if all of the PTI’s independents join the MWM in the National Assembly, the party would still have difficulties because electoral regulations demand that each party submit separate lists of candidates for the seats held by women and minorities. It’s also said that the MWM hasn’t submitted these lists.

However, other analysts contend that any party, in this example the MWM, is free to submit the lists at any time, even after the elections have taken place.for the direct seat