{"id":23995,"date":"2026-10-05T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23995"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T10:52:04","slug":"khawaja-asif-questions-whether-pti-would-honour-outcome-of-successful-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23995","title":{"rendered":"Khawaja Asif Questions Whether PTI Would Honour Outcome of Successful Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has questioned what guarantee there would be that PTI would honour the outcome of negotiations, even if the talks proved successful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on social media platform X, Asif alleged that workers had taken to the streets carrying weapons while their leaders remained inside bombproof and bulletproof government vehicles. In a sarcastic remark, he described these \u201cbrave leaders\u201d as hiding \u201clike mice\u201d inside the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The defence minister cited the use of helicopters and government resources, along with armed processions, describing these actions as open violations of a court order.<\/p>\n<p>He said a courageous leader who was not, in his words, someone profiting from illicit gains would stand shoulder to shoulder with party workers. Asif alleged that the court\u2019s order and stipulated conditions were being openly violated.<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the negotiations, he asked what assurance there would have been that their outcome would be respected even if an agreement had been reached. He said the National Action Plan enjoyed broad agreement and respect, but claimed that PTI was unwilling to accept it.<\/p>\n<p>Asif further alleged that PTI neither resisted nor condemned drone attacks from Afghanistan or incidents of terrorism. He levelled the same criticism at the party regarding the deaths of military, paramilitary and police personnel in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding his statement with a sarcastic reference, the defence minister said they had spoken of attacking Somnath, but this was Islamabad. \u201cLet them first get out of Ghazni,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has questioned what guarantee there would be that PTI would honour the outcome of negotiations, even if the talks proved successful. In a statement on social media platform X, Asif alleged that workers had taken to the streets carrying weapons while their leaders remained inside bombproof and bulletproof government vehicles. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13772,85,386,10432,4622,129],"class_list":["post-23995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-government-opposition-talks","tag-islamabad","tag-khawaja-asif","tag-national-action-plan","tag-pakistan-politics","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23996,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23995\/revisions\/23996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}