PTI sit-in is over, the govt became weaker & establishment more powerful: Liaqat Baloch

ISLAMABAD, LAHORE, Nov 28 (SABAH): Naib Emir Jamaat-e-Islami, former parliamentary leader Liaqat Baloch has said that the PTI sit-in is over, the government has become weaker and the establishment has become more powerful. He said the government should abstain from crushing protest through power and added if political crises are resolved, political and economic stability will come.

Speaking to journalists in Islamabad and workers in Rawalpindi, Liaqat Baloch said that the PTI sit-in is over, the government has become weaker and the establishment has become more powerful.

He said the end of the sit-in, the firing, tear gas, and baton charge by the security agencies to disperse the sit-in, as well as the martyrdoms of the security personnel and political activists are shocking and saddening.

He further said the situation is showing that in this whole process politics and democracy weakened and more difficulties have been created for sustainable democracy. Zubair Safdar, Hamza Siddiqui, Shahid Shamsi and Aamir Baloch were present on this occasion. Liaqat Baloch condoled and prayed for forgiveness on the death of Farid Brohi’s wife and female leader of Jamaat-e-Islami in Islamabad.

Liaqat Baloch said that political and economic stability will come if a solution to the political crisis is found. The federal government is engaged in foreign visits, engagements regarding welcoming foreign personalities coming to Pakistan and making loud announcements of investment, but no serious effort is being made to normalize the internal conditions of the country, he added.

Protest is a political and democratic constitutional right, but in order to get the country and the nation out of the crisis, the national political leadership must have a national dialogue on national priorities, he said and added otherwise politics, democracy, elections will be controlled, engineered and all kinds of possession will be transferred to the establishment.  Political activists are the backbone of democracy, political leaders should avoid using them and security forces to suppress protests with blind force, he added.

Liaqat Baloch while addressing the Ittehad-e-Ummat Conference in Lahore said that a temporary ceasefire was agreed in Kurram District, Sadda, Parachinar, but the parties are still engaged in target killing and killings against each other.