ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan had two secret meetings with firebrand agitationist Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri to hold negotiations on a joint strategy that was formalised through a written agreement only to be violated later, resulting in the premature separation of PTI and PAT.
Daily The News revealed yesterday based on background interviews with informed officials from both the sides that the first meeting was held in London and the second in Lahore. Both interactions were kept secret at the request of Khan.
The meeting held in London decided that an agitation campaign against the government would be launched. Qadri named it ‘Azadi March.’ Both the leaders agreed to make an announcement in this respect at a joint press conference.
MINGORA: Veteran politician and the last crown prince of the princely state of Swat in northern Pakistan, Miangul Aurangzeb passed away in Islamabad on Sunday. He was 86. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Saidu Sharif, Swat.
His funeral prayers were attended by political leaders of different parties including Adviser to Prime Minister Eng Ameer Muqam, members of provincial assembly, bureaucrats, local people and family members.
Miangul Aurangzeb, who served as governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1999 and governor of Balochistan from 1997 to 1999, was born on May 28, 1928 in Saidu Sharif.
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