{"id":1155605,"date":"2026-02-02T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1155605"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T14:44:27","slug":"opposition-leader-in-kp-welcomes-pm-kp-cm-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/opposition-leader-in-kp-welcomes-pm-kp-cm-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition leader in KP welcomes PM-KP CM meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">PESHAWAR, Feb 02 (APP): The opposition leader in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Dr Ibad Khan, reacting to Chief Minister Sohail Afridi\u2019s meeting with the Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz, said here Monday that not discussing political matters during the meeting was a positive approach, and that the Chief Minister played the role of a \u201cgood child.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a message, Dr Ibad said that he has always maintained that sitting face to face is the only effective forum for resolving KP issues.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the solution of provincial problems, he said the Chief Minister should go and sit with the Prime Minister so that public issues can be addressed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that by not discussing matters such as Adiala Jail and street movements during the meeting, the Chief Minister showed wisdom and political maturity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If the CM continues to demonstrate the same seriousness and sense of responsibility, the province\u2019s problems can be resolved.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr Ibad said &#8220;climbing onto a vehicle with a group of four people, which sometimes in one district, sometimes another, sometimes at one intersection and sometimes another will neither solve problems nor produce any positive outcome.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that going among the public is meant to obtain a mandate, and when the mandate already exists, there is no need to take to the streets. Relevant forums for resolving issues already exist and should be utilized.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further said that at this time, there is a need not for mobilization but for effective delivery, so that real relief can be provided to the public.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR, Feb 02 (APP): The opposition leader in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Dr Ibad Khan, reacting to Chief Minister Sohail Afridi\u2019s meeting with the Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz, said here Monday that not discussing political matters during the meeting was a positive approach, and that the Chief Minister played the role of a \u201cgood child.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[6049,1693,210],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1155605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-cm-sohail-afridi","tag-opposition-leader","tag-peshawar-news","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155605"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1155605"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1155605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}