{"id":4755,"date":"2025-07-02T20:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:12:58","slug":"try-us-cm-gandapur-stands-his-ground-amid-power-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/07\/02\/try-us-cm-gandapur-stands-his-ground-amid-power-struggles","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTry Us\u201d: CM Gandapur Stands His Ground Amid Power Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD \u2013 In a moment charged with political defiance, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur delivered a pointed message to the country\u2019s undisclosed power brokers: the PTI-led provincial government is not going anywhere \u2014 unless removed by the constitution, not coercion.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists during an impassioned press conference at KP House, Gandapur dared anyone plotting political disruption to come forward \u2014 but warned that KP is not a battleground to be hijacked through intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear \u2014 if you have the numbers, bring a no-confidence motion. If not, don\u2019t try to manufacture a crisis through pressure or threats,\u201d Gandapur declared, flanked by top PTI figures.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that May 9 was never about riots or violence \u2014 but about removing PTI\u2019s founder from the national narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was personally pushed to speak against him,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t about justice; it was about erasing the movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unity and Resistance<\/p>\n<p>PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar backed the CM\u2019s stance, saying the party had no personal animosity towards any institution but demanded that democratic outcomes be respected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about revenge \u2014 it\u2019s about principle. If someone wants to test their strength in KP, let them come through the Assembly, not through backdoor deals,\u201d Gohar added.<\/p>\n<p>Party Secretary General Salman Akram Raja echoed the sentiment, stating the resistance is not just political, but moral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey told us to move on \u2014 but how do you move on when your vote, your voice, is nullified?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PTI leadership\u2019s tone was unmistakably clear: their fight isn\u2019t just for power, but for the preservation of what they call the public mandate. And in Gandapur\u2019s words, \u201cWe won\u2019t bow \u2014 we\u2019ll stand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD \u2013 In a moment charged with political defiance, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur delivered a pointed message to the country\u2019s undisclosed power brokers: the PTI-led provincial government is not going anywhere \u2014 unless removed by the constitution, not coercion. Addressing journalists during an impassioned press conference at KP House, Gandapur dared anyone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4757,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions\/4757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}