• Ulema urge Imran Khan's party to hold talks with govt. 
• Meeting of Kul Masalik Ulema Board held in Lahore.
• Politicians "worried about" saving politics instead of lives.

Reacting to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s call for "do-or-die" protest in Islamabad and the development that unfolded in its aftermath as situation grew tense in different parts of the country, ulema belonging to various schools of thought said that the political leadership should act sensibly as the politics of sit-ins and protests was harming the country and the nation.

A meeting of Kul Masalik Ulema Board was held in Lahore on Sunday presided by Chairman Maulana Asim Makhdoom. The meeting was attended by Allama Mohsin Golrawi, Qari Khalid Mahmood, Agha Saghir Abbas Virk and Allama Muhammad Badr among others.

The scholars said that if the members of PTI founder Imran Khan's party can sit with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman, then there should be no problem in sitting with the current government.

Calling attention towards the pressing issue of violence in District Kurram, they said that scores of killings took place in Parachinar but what they were worried about was saving their politics.

It should be noted that the PTI convoy led by Imran’s wife Bushra Bibi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur had left for Islamabad from Peshawar.

Viewing the PTI protests, the government has closed the main arteries with containers and placed barricades on many other roads leading to Islamabad.

PTI leaders claim that 490 of their workers and leaders have been arrested from various cities of Punjab so far, while 100 others are missing.