Opposition leaders consider a grand coalition and want new elections.

In order to analyze the current political climate in the nation, opposition leaders met in Islamabad on Tuesday under the direction of Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the chairman of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP).

A dinner honoring opposition leaders was organized by Mahmood Khan Achakzai, who is also the president of the opposition alliance Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP).

Among those who attended the dinner were Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Asad Qaiser, Omar Ayub, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Allama Nasir Abbas, Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Shibli Faraz, Sardar Latif Khosa, Mustafa Nawaz Khokar, Junaid Akbar, Aslam Ghauri, and other senior officials.

Sources claim that a thorough debate on the nation’s current political climate and the creation of a grand coalition of opposition parties took place. Additionally, it was decided at the summit that in order to get the nation out of its crisis, all democratic forces should unite on a single platform.

Under Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s leadership, the opposition leaders decided to establish a committee to call an All Parties Conference (APC) and draft a national agenda. Shibli Faraz, Kamran Murtaza, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, Sahibzada, and Asad Qaiser Akhunzada Hussain, Nasir Shirazi, Sajid Tareen, and Hamid Raza will serve on the committee.

They said that the general elections held on February 8 were rigged and that new elections ought to be held. They insisted that in order to hold free and fair elections, an impartial Election Commission be set up. They also requested that Imran Khan, the founder of the PTI, and all other political figures be released.

They said the government had failed miserably to keep the peace and order in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Concerns about the nation’s economic status were also voiced.