LAHORE: PML-N leader Khwaja Saad Rafique has requested the federal government to allow a meeting between the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders and the incarcerated party founder Imran Khan to avert protest announced by the PTI in Islamabad for Tuesd ay (today).

Citing media reports, Rafique wrote on `X` on Monday that the PTI leadership has set the condition of being allowed a meeting with Mr Khan in Adiala Jail for withdrawing its Oct 15 protest call. `The government should arrange a meeting of Imran Khan with the PTI leaders, he suggested.

The PML-N leader added that the PTI might come up with another `excuse` for staging the protest despite being allowed the meeting with Khan, but the government should not provide the party any reason for resorting to agitation in the fed-eral capital, where a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is scheduled for Tuesday (today).

Mr Rafique, who appears dissatisfied with the course of `power politics` chosen by his party`s leadership, said the PTI had a history of creating disturbances during the visits by foreign guests to Pakistan.

`Pitting its workers against law enforcement agencies on a regular basis is a highly dangerous move [by the PTI]. A physical clash and confrontation should be avoided to prevent public embarrassment, he said and urged the PTI to withdraw its protest call unconditionally.

Earlier this month, while addressing a ceremony in Lahore, Saad Rafique had said: `Flattery and false praise ruin even the most capable political leaders.

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