Jailed PTI Leaders Call for National Reconciliation in Pakistan

Jailed PTI leaders call on govt to address immediate challenges, say national reconciliation ‘need of the hour’

Five PTI leaders imprisoned at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail said on Tuesday that the government needed to revisit its approach to address immediate national challenges, adding that “national reconciliation is the need of the hour”. The PTI leaders — Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Yasmin Rashid, Ejaz Chaudhry, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed, and Omar Sarfraz Cheema — made the remarks in a statement released through their lawyer. They said that rising terrorism due to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, the deterio...

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