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Pak president offers to mediate between PM, Imran

Amid growing conflict and confrontation between the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) over alleged rigging in elections, President Mamnoon Hussain has offered to mediate between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and PTI chief Imran Khan.
While talking to Express News anchor Javed Chaudhry, President Mamnoon invited the PTI chief to visit him at the President's House.
"Imran Khan has never visited me. I invite him to meet me at the President's House."
"I will also invite the prime minister and am ready to mediate between the two to put an end to politics of confrontation," the president said, acknowledging that rigging was prevalent in the present electoral system, which needed to be dealt with.
The PTI chairman has repeatedly accused the ruling PML-N of committing electoral fraud in the 2013 general election, as well as in the recently held local polls.
Meanwhile addressing several meetings in interior Sindh during the past two days while campaigning for the next phase of local government elections, Imran Khan said the people of Pakistan too demand better governance from the civilian government.
"Governance is not only the demand of the army but of the Pakistani people," Imran said.
Imran insisted that his party was vigorously pursuing its agenda of creating new Pakistan by focusing on the welfare of the people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governed by it.
Imran said unlike Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where he claimed police were independent, the Sindh government was using the force to its advantage in the elections. He vowed to implement similar policies in Sindh if elected by the people.
Speaking at a rally in Umarkot on Friday Imran denounced injustice done to minorities in Pakistan, adding that those doing politics in the name of religion and sects were distorting the image of Islam.
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He said the ruling PPP had divided Sindhis on ethnic grounds and exploiting Sindhis' pro-Bhutto sentiments.
He criticised the Sindh government alleging that corruption was rampant in the province. - news@khaleejtimes.com

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