ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb announced that all-parties conference (APC) convened by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will take place on February 9 instead of 7.

In tweet, Marriyum said that national leadership will formulate joint strategy to combat terrorism and other challenges being faced by country. She said that National Action Plan would also be reviewed in APC.

Following last week’s deadly bombing in Peshawar mosque, PM Shehbaz Sharif summoned an APC to find solutions on “Important national challenges”.

PM seeks to bring heads of all political parties on table so they can join heads and figure out ways to address “Important national challenges”, Marriyum Aurangzeb said in a statement back then. In bid to develop consensus on issue, PM also extended an invite to his rival Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan.

However PTI Secretary General Asad Umar said that party Chief Imran Khan would not attend federal government’s APC. “How can we sit with them [PDM-led government] while cases are being registered against us?”

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 07 2023

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