Daily Times

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Naeemul Haque Sunday said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had invited prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan to visit Kabul.

“The Afghan president telephoned Imran and congratulated him on his victory in the 2018 General Election,” Haque said while addressing the media in Islamabad.

Also the Afghan president confirmed via a tweet that he had called Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and congratulated him on his victory in the elections, and invited him to visit Kabul.

Ghani tweeted that both sides had also “agreed to overcome the past and to lay a new foundation for a prosperous political, social and economic future of both countries Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

The Afghan president also said that he had invited the PTI chief to Kabul.

“I extended an open invitation to Mr. Khan and he expressed his wishes to visit Kabul soon.”

Haque said that the PTI chief told the Afghan president that he would visit Kabul after assuming power.

Further, the PTI leader urged Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) President Maulana Fazlur Rehman to not boycott parliament.

” Fazlur Rehman should take back his decision in light of Imran’s vow to aid in probing opposition parties’ rigging allegations,” Haque asserted.

The PTI leader also shared that the PTI was in talks with various political parties for support to form the government in the Centre and Punjab.

“We have the mandate to form governments in the Centre and Punjab,” he reiterated.

Published in Daily Times, July 30^th 2018.