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July 03, 2026
TTAP Delegation Stopped from Going to RawalakotIslamabad: The Tehreek Tahaffuz Aiyeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP) delegation Monday was barred from proceeding to Azad Jammu and Kashmir, where they were scheduled to interact with the Joint Awami Action Committee in Rawalakot regarding their demands and concerns.
The delegation included Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Mehmood Khan Achakzai (who led the delegation), Leader of opposition in the Senate Allama Raja Nasir Abbas, former prime minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, ex-Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, opposition alliance spokesman Akhunzada Hussain and Khalid Yousaf Chaudhry, lawyer of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Chairman Imran Khan.
The opposition leaders staged a sit-in at Sihala for some time, where they were stopped by the police, which had brought along prison vans etc. Later, speaking to a news conference at the residence of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Allama Nasir Abbas, Salman Akram Raja and Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar slammed the government for stopping them from proceeding to Rawalakot, where they were supposed to meet banned JAAC members.
They insisted that the footage and images of the incident at Sihala was not only a matter of embarrassment at the national level but internationally as well. They wondered what the government had tried to achieve by first mishandling the matter and then impeding efforts for finding a solution through dialogue.
It was resolved that only truth would be spoken whether someone liked it or not. They warned of staging sit-ins across the country if the rulers did not change their approach towards issues.
“The way they are running the country, there will be sit-ins throughout the country, and it will be very difficult to control them. Therefore, don’t force us to resort to that option,” asserted Achakzai and added that if reason and logic were not to be accepted, was there any other way to resolve issues.
He explained that today the main highway was closed because of them and citizens could not move. Khokhar said that they wanted to go to Azad Kashmir, as they wanted to listen to the complaints and grievances of Kashmiris. However, he noted the Islamabad police stopped them. “When we asked the police why they stopped us and under what law, they had no answer except to say they had orders from “higher authorities”, he said.
He accused the government of adding fuel to the fire, while they wanted to solve the problems. Shahid Khaqan said that many delegations came to reduce the tension in Kashmir. “We were going for a good cause, and it was necessary to go there but they were not allowed to proceed,” he remarked.
Meanwhile, TTAP strongly condemned the “shameful” treatment meted out to the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Allama Nasir Abbas, in Islamabad. The opposition alliance spokesman said that after illegally stopping them, when Allama Raja Nasir Abbas was returning to his residence after a press conference, he was forced to get down from his vehicle by a police officer, Sub-Inspector Naeem, at the end of the Bhara Kahu Bypass.
He felt that to force a sick, elderly and opposition leader in the country’s upper house onto the road and force him to walk for nearly three kilometers is not only an insult to human dignity but also a stain on the constitutional, democratic and parliamentary system of Pakistan.
“We demand immediate action against all the officials responsible for this illegal, immoral and condemnable act and those who issued their orders and make it clear that our voice will be raised at every legal, political and democratic forum against this attack on the Constitution, democracy and civil liberties,” he said. - The News
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