ISLAMABAD: The first meeting of joint opposition’s Rehbar Committee on Friday unanimously agreed on replacing incumbent Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani.
The newly formed Rehbar Committee, comprising the nine opposition parties, met for the first time on Friday. The meeting, which was chaired by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Opposition Leader Akram Durrani, took an oath of confidentiality before proceeding further. Reportedly, the participants were not permitted to carry their mobile phone in the meeting room.
The meeting agreed upon formulating a policy to run an anti-government movement.
Nayyar Hussain Bukhari and Farhatullah Babar represented PPP, while Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal attended the meeting on behalf of PML-N.
JUI-F’s Akram Khan Durrani, National Party’s Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party’s Usman Khan Kakar, Qaumi Watan Party’s Hashim Babar, Awami National Party’s Mian Iftikhar Hussain, Shafiq Pasrori and JUP’s Owais Noorani attended the meeting.
It is pertinent to mention here that on June 26, an All Parties Conference (APC) hosted by JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had decided to constitute a ‘Rehbar Committee’ to devise a joint future line of action. The committee having the representation of all opposition parties would sort out their mutual differences and ensure implementation of the APC decisions.
Talking about the committee after the APC in the presser, Fazl had said that the opposition parties will replace Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani through a constitutional procedure.
“A steering committee – comprising members from all parties – would be mandated to name a joint candidate. The committee will be called Rehbar Committee, it will implement the APC decisions,” he had said.
