Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Thursday that there was no chance of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's release.
Speaking to media outside the Parliament House, Asif said: "It is also unlikely that Imran Khan will get relief as of now. The PTI is making full efforts to avoid staging its upcoming protest on November 24."
"Both political and military leaderships are moving the country's matters forward. We will not allow any province's attack on the center at any cost."
Asif asserted, "Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur is holding talks with the establishment since day one."
"Anything can happen in the country's political landscape; there are still two days left before the PTI's protest," he stated.
Asif maintained, "The federal government can give the permission of staging the protest, but an attack on the center will not be allowed at all."
He said, "The lobby underway in the favor of the PTI founder. The PTI workers are indulged in the funding for the foreign lobby and harming the country."
Asif schooled India for backing the terrorists, saying, "Afghanistan is being used for the terrorists."
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