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IMRAN KHAN WAS READY TO SHIFT PROTEST SITE, BUSHRA BIBI REFUSED: BARRISTER SAIF
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government spokesperson Barrister Saif has revealed that former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Founder Imran Khan was open to shifting the location of the party’s ongoing protest, but Bushra Bibi remained adamant.
Barrister Saif said Imran Khan had agreed to relocate the protest to Sangjani instead of Islamabad’s D-Chowk.
However, Saif claimed, Imran Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, rejected the proposal, who insisted that the protest would not take place anywhere but D-Chowk, as originally planned.
“Bushra Bibi refused to protest anywhere except D-Chowk and played the role of a front-row leader during the protest,” Barrister Saif claimed.
Earlier in the day, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi stated that a ‘hidden hand’ sitting in the background was controlling the PTI, and that hand is the reason behind all the riots. Talking to the media in Islamabad, the minister claimed the PTI leadership wanted to talk, but this one ‘hidden hand’ is dominating the narrative. “The intentions of this secret hand are different,” he maintained.