PESHAWAR: Aimal Wali Khan, the President of Awami National Party, put a question mark over the one-on-one meeting of the Chief Minister (CM) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with the Corps Commander Peshawar, Lieutenant General Omar Ahmed Bhakri. He asked if the “founder” was informed and if permission was sought from him before this meeting.
In a statement on X (previously Twitter), Aimal Wali Khan commented, “On the one hand Islamabad sees a series of high-level meetings being carried out for counter terrorism, distribution of wheat, and the relief of the area hit by the floods. On the other hand, the champions of protests are so busy that they don’t even get time to show up. They refuse to attend and in their excuse say that they didn’t get permission from their ‘Khan’.”
اسلام آباد میں دہشت گردی کی روک تھام، گندم کی تقسیم اور سیلاب کی تباہ کاریوں پر اعلیٰ سطحی میٹنگ ہوتی ہے، مگر احتجاج کے “چیمپین” صاحب اس میں شرکت سے یہ کہہ کر انکار کر دیتے ہیں کہ انہیں اپنے “خان” سے اجازت نہیں ملی۔ سوال یہ ہے کہ کل جو ون آن ون ملاقات ہوئی، کیا اس کی اجازت بھی لی…
— Aimal Wali Khan (@AimalWali) October 27, 2025
He added, “Now the question arises, was the permission sought for one-on-one meeting that was held yesterday? The person who was so adamant that no decisions are made in closed rooms must have realized yesterday in the closed room where the real decisions are made.”
Moreover, Aimal Wali Khan commented, “Drama-makers have taken over this province. One went away, another came; the stage is the same, and we, the spectators, are still at the old love affair with the drama, the show continues.”
It is noteworthy that on Friday, an important one-on-one meeting was held between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and Corps Commander Peshawar, Lt. Gen. Umar Ahmed Bukhari, at the CM Secretariat to discuss the province’s law and order situation and the recent terror incidents.
According to reports, the meeting encompassed not only the security arrangements but also the counter-terrorism measures and the developmental projects in the tribal areas.
Chief Minister Afridi instructed the necessity to open dialogues with the stakeholders for keeping peace in the province and also underlined a joint strategy as an effective way to fight against terror.
The Corps Commander was very positive about KP government’s security measures and stressed the importance of coordinative efforts at higher levels i.e., federal and provincial.
After the meeting, CM Afridi also conducted a session of the apex committee to take stock of the security situation and enhance cooperation with law enforcement agencies.
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The meeting details were quickly circulated on social media, leading to a heated discussion among the platform users as to whether Afridi had taken Imran Khan’s permission or was acting on his own. Several netizens pointed out that when Afridi was setting the condition for the formation of the cabinet, he said it would require Khan’s approval, however, this meeting seemed to be in contradiction. Some even wrote that the decision somehow gives an impression that Afridi like Khan is also capable of doing a sudden change of direction.
The conversation reflects increased scrutiny of political decision-making and questioning of the independence of provincial leadership in KP from the public perspective.
