{"id":108785,"date":"2026-05-25T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/opposition-may-quit-assemblies-if-govt-does-not-change-its-attitude-towards-imran-achakzai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T17:24:03","slug":"opposition-may-quit-assemblies-if-govt-does-not-change-its-attitude-towards-imran-achakzai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/opposition-may-quit-assemblies-if-govt-does-not-change-its-attitude-towards-imran-achakzai\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition may quit assemblies if govt does not change its attitude towards Imran: Achakzai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ISLAMABAD: Mehmood Khan Achakzai, opposition Leader in the National Assembly and leader of the Tehreek Tahaffuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), on Monday hinted that the opposition alliance might quit the assemblies if the government did not change its attitude towards former prime minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Dawn News<\/em> programme \u201cDoosra Rukh\u201d, he said: \u201cI fear that if the current attitude towards Imran Khan continues, we will not be able to stay in the assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has he [Imran] done? Has he committed murders, as you are threatening that a 50-year prison sentence can be announced? He has only said that his snatched mandate should be returned to him. But you have been saying that a 50-year prison term can be announced.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to try him in a military court. Tell me if he is a general or a colonel,\u201d Achakzai said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the PTI\u2019s central committee suggests quitting the assemblies in Punjab, Sindh and the Centre, and only running the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it will be implemented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He lamented that there was little benefit to these assemblies if they could not even ensure a meeting with a prisoner [Imran].<\/p>\n

When asked if he feared that the PTI central committee might suggest withdrawing from the assemblies, Achakzai responded: \u201cI don\u2019t fear it, I can see it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that the opposition had been left with no other option, so there was no question of whether withdrawing from the assemblies would be right or wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have no option but to withdraw from the assemblies and parliamentary committees.\u201d<\/p>\n

He claimed that \u201ccriminals and murderers are free\u201d in the country, while Imran had been kept in jail.<\/p>\n

Achakzai maintained that the government was pushing the opposition to withdraw from the assemblies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 50 to 60 PTI seats in the assembly. What will you do if the PTI pulls out?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Last week, he had warned<\/a> the government that it could face a complete boycott by the opposition during the upcoming budget session, demanding medical treatment for the incarcerated PTI founder at a hospital of his choice and unrestricted visitation rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ISLAMABAD: Mehmood Khan Achakzai, opposition Leader in the National Assembly and leader of the Tehreek Tahaffuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP), on Monday hinted that the opposition alliance might quit the assemblies if the government did not change its attitude towards former prime minister Imran Khan. Speaking on Dawn News programme \u201cDoosra Rukh\u201d, he said: \u201cI fear that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/05\/25210308b0c5406.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}