PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf central information secretary and MNA Sheikh Waqas Akram on Tuesdaysaid that there was neither any difference nor any place for tug-of-war in the party.

During a news conference at the information department here, Mr Akram said that PTI founder Imran Khan had made it clear in its media interaction on Tuesday that the party`s president in KP was changed at the request of Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, who held the office.

He said that the chief minister had also conveyed to the party founder in person and throughothers a request to relieve himof the party`s provincial president`s post as he was finding it difficult to manage both offices.

The PTI leader said Imran fully trusted the party`s government, chief minister KP and party workers.

He said that the federal government was not interested in taking talks with the PTI to the logical end, so its talk of sorting out issues through dialogue was hypocrisy.

`There`s room for talks and not for wasting our time,` he said.

Mr Akram said that the government couldn`t even arrange a meeting of party leaders with founder of their party Imran Khan and was using the jail manual and other regulations as a pretext to prevent that sought-after interaction.

He questioned which jail manual allowed the early morning meeting of PTI chairman Barrister Gohar and leader Barrister Saif with Imran before the party`s Sangjani public gath-ering and a meeting on Nov 24.

`We`re asking the government to just issue a notification regarding the formation of a judicial commission to look into our grievances. Its modalities could have been worked out in the fourth session of talks,` he said.

The PTI leader said that MNA of the party from NA-170Mian Ghous was picked up from his Lahore house on Monday evening and he had been missing since then.

`People scaled the walls of the MNA`s house, dragged him out of his bedroom in front of family members, and forcibly took him away. The intruders also smashed things in the house,` he said.

Mr Akram said that the lawmaker had been missing since 8:40pm on Tuesday and hadn`t been produced in a court as required by the law.

He said that the kidnapping and disappearances of an elected MNA happened in broad daylight.

The PTI leader wondered what the speaker of the NationalAssembly had done to address the issue despite being the custodian of the house.

He said that MNAs couldn`t be detained even without the permission of the speaker, who should ask the Punjab`s government, chief secretary and police chief about the missing lawmaker`s whereabouts.

Mr Akram demanded the immediate release of MNA Mian Ghous.

`Mian Ghous was chased before the 26th Constitutional Amendment and a fabricated land case was registered against him by the anti-corruption establishment,` he said, alleging the MNA`s harassment despite the grant of bail by a court in the case.

The PTI leader insisted that the lawmaker was being pressured to quit PTI, but suchbids wouldn`t succeed.

He said that the excesses of the federal government would `return to haunt` them in the future.