{"id":2224,"date":"2026-10-06T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:03:54","slug":"pm-asks-pti-to-come-to-its-senses-cancel-long-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2224","title":{"rendered":"PM asks PTI to come to its senses, cancel long march"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to abandon its agitational politics and cancel its long march, conditioning dialogue on the cessation of protest, saying that agitation would inflict heavy damage to national economic growth and the country\u2019s international standing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still ask them to come to their senses. End your long marches and sit-ins. Once you end them, we will certainly sit down with you and talk so that Pakistan moves forward with mutual hard work, honesty, and integrity. This is the desire of the nation, the voice of every Pakistani,\u201d the prime minister said while addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kashmir Chowk Underpass being constructed to ease the traffic flow between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Information and Broadcasting Minister Attaullah Tarar, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, and Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry, Chairman of the Capital Development Authority Sohail Ashraf attended the ceremony, along with parliamentarians and notables from different walks of life.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister told the gathering that the PTI had again resorted to the politics of sit-ins and long marches despite the government\u2019s sincere efforts to engage in meaningful negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a joint committee, comprising representatives from the PML-N and the Pakistan Peoples Party, had held talks with the opposition, but the process stalled after the PTI demanded last-minute changes to the finalised draft, indicating that their sole objective was to sabotage the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of the politics of sit-ins and long marches, the primary target will be your economy. There will be disruptions in your exports, your manufacturing, and your imports. If your labourer or your engineer fails to reach the factory, the manufacturing site, or their office on time, whose loss is it? It is the loss of this nation, the loss of this country,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government had successfully restored macroeconomic stability and was striving for growth through collective teamwork, with positive indicators reflected in rising exports, remittances, and industrial production.<\/p>\n<p>He cautioned that undermining these hard-won achievements would amount to hostility toward the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow this to happen. The law will take its course. Protecting the lives and property of the people is our responsibility, and we will ensure this by all means,\u201d he resolved.<\/p>\n<p>He appreciated Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi and his team for setting the target to complete the Kashmir Chowk project within a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday called on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to abandon its agitational politics and cancel its long march, conditioning dialogue on the cessation of protest, saying that agitation would inflict heavy damage to national economic growth and the country\u2019s international standing. \u201cI still ask them to come to their senses. End your long marches and sit-ins. Once you end them, we will certainly sit down with you and talk so that Pakistan moves forward with mutual hard work, honesty, and integrity. This is the desire of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}