PTI has nominated Umar Ayub for Prime Minister and Mian Aslam for Punjab Chief Minister.

While announcing the Chief Minister, Gohar says that our candidate for Chief Minister in Punjab will be Mian Aslam, Salar Sahib will be the candidate for Chief Minister in Balochistan.

ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/LAHORE: Senior PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said on Thursday that Umar Ayub Khan will be the party's candidate for the post of Prime Minister and Mian Aslam Iqbal as Chief Minister of Punjab.

Talking to the media here after a detailed consultation with the founding chairman of the party Imran Khan in Adiala Jail, Gohar said that the party is confident in the election of Umar Ayub as the prime minister and he will remain until the release of Imran.

He said that a political party (PTI) which was present in all provinces and had two-third majority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab was being restricted and a party with zero credibility and barely 20 seats. He is being given power. The public will not accept such a mandate.

It was also said that we have been offered to form the government with PPP, PMLN or MQM while we have announced as per Khan Sahib's instructions that we will not be in power with any of them. Will not participate. We did not have talks with the PPP, because we have a one-point agenda that we do public politics instead of power sharing," Gohar said. Khan's message was that PTI's politics is for power sharing. No, but for the people. Others have taken care of their own interests by doing politics in the name of the people, but Tehreek-e-Insaaf is working to protect the rights of the people by doing the politics of the people and believe in mandate, democracy and rule of law. keeps

“No one believes in sharing power with them (rivals). We are in a position to form the government soon in the Centre, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and have requested the Judiciary and the Election Commission to decide on the 70 constituencies as soon as possible.

While announcing the names for the Chief Ministers, Gohar said that 'Mian Aslam will be our chief ministerial candidate in Punjab and Salar Sahib will be our chief ministerial candidate in Balochistan. Similarly, he added that only the speaker has been decided in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where Imran Khan has nominated Aqibullah for the post of speaker.

Gohar said his party has announced a peaceful protest against the alleged rigging and has invited all parties including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami and GDA to participate in it on Saturday.

On this occasion, PTI leader Sher Afzal Marwat said that we have put the whole situation before Imran Khan and Khan is clear that under no circumstances will we share power with PMLN and PPP. can

He said that PTI will show the Form 45 of all party-backed candidates whose victory was rigged and Salman Akram Raja will give a presentation to local and international media in this regard at a local hotel.

Apart from this, senior leader of the party Asad Qaiser along with Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif also interacted with the journalists outside the jail.

Assad alleged that the February 8 elections were the worst elections with no credibility and no one was willing to accept them. He alleged that his party's mandate has been stolen against which there will be protests across the country and he will try to talk to various parties in this regard.

Barrister Saif said Asad's brother Aqibullah, who was elected to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial seat from Swabi, was nominated by Imran for the post of speaker.

He said that the message of the founder of the party for America is to correct its past mistakes and play its role for democracy. America has always sided with dictators and supported corrupt people. Now is the time for him to put more pressure on his statement on the recent elections in Pakistan,” Saif quoted Imran as saying.

Meanwhile, Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister John Achakzai on Thursday alleged that the PTI was trying to make the February 8 general elections controversial.

Achakzai said that there is no one like Salar in the assembly. He added that Salar's nomination testifies to PTI's lack of knowledge.

Contrary to Achakzai's claim, Salar Kakar said that PTI's founding chairman Imran Khan trusted him and nominated him for consultation regarding the election of the Chief Minister. We won five provincial assembly seats but were declared losers. We are now going to court and will win, God willing,” Salar said.

In a related development, the Awami National Party (ANP) on Thursday rejected the PTI's offer of talks and said it had already announced a protest against 'rigging' in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In a statement, ANP Secretary General Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that PTI leader Asad Qaiser had approached him to discuss the political situation in the country but his party rejected the offer on this basis. That the majority of PTI supported candidates were elected through rigging while the candidates of ANP and other political parties were defeated as a result of a well thought out conspiracy.

ANP feels that negotiations with PTI as a political entity will not be favorable.

At this time, as the party has already announced a protest movement against rigging and manipulation of results in the February 8 elections," the statement said. It was said with reference to the ANP leader.