{"id":23157,"date":"2025-10-13T00:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23157"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:04:01","slug":"sana-urges-pti-to-stand-with-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=23157","title":{"rendered":"Sana urges PTI to &#8216;stand with army&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Prime Minister&#8217;s Adviser on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah has said if the PTI wants to pursue politics in the country, it should stand with its armed forces today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it [PTI] stands with the Pakistan Army, their martyrs and Pakistan today without any ifs or buts, then a path forward may open up for them,&#8221; Sana said on Sunday while speaking at a press conference in his native town of Faisalabad. The PM&#8217;s adviser was apparently referring to the Pakistan Army&#8217;s response to the Afghan force&#8217;s firing along the western border.<\/p>\n<p>According to security sources, Afghan forces on Saturday night opened unprovoked fire at multiple locations along the border\u0097including Angoor Adda, Bajaur, Kurram, Dir and Chitral areas in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) and Zhob district in Balochistan province.<\/p>\n<p>The firing, they added, was aimed at facilitating the cross-border movement of the formations of &#8220;Khawarij&#8221;\u0097TTP operatives. The Pakistan Army&#8217;s posts responded swiftly and forcefully.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) on Sunday said 23 soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom during the clash, which also left 200 Taliban and TTP operatives dead.<\/p>\n<p>A day before the clashes, the ISPR chief had publicly criticized the PTI which rules over Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) province and advised it to work on protecting the people of the province instead of &#8220;begging&#8221; Taliban led Afghanistan for security.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the ISPR chief&#8217;s press conference, the PTI said the blame for terrorism could not be placed on any single party and that the issue of terror can only be resolved through dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media on Saturday, Salman Akram Raja said the PTI stands against every force that is against Pakistan &#8220;but terrorism cannot be eliminated through military power alone\u0097the party founder [Imran Khan] has said the same. Balochistan and the K-P are bleeding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raja claimed that during the PTI&#8217;s rule in the Centre, incidents of terrorism were at their lowest. Even though former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani had ties with India&#8217;s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), terrorism in the K-P decreased,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned why Pakistan had distanced itself from the Afghan government. He said Imran had ordered reforms in the province, which was a positive move. &#8220;Whenever attempts were made to push back a political party, violence and bloodshed followed,&#8221; he observed.<\/p>\n<p>Raja recalled that the PML-N led federal government itself initiated talks with the TTP in 2022. &#8220;[PML-N&#8217;s] Rana Sanaullah also spoke about negotiations with the Taliban. We must determine who brought these militants back in 2021,&#8221; he demanded.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister&#8217;s Adviser on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah has said if the PTI wants to pursue politics in the country, it should stand with its armed forces today. &#8220;If it [PTI] stands with the Pakistan Army, their martyrs and Pakistan today without any ifs or buts, then a path forward may open up for them,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157","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=23157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}