Information Adviser to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government Muhammad Ali Saif’s statement related to the Indian foreign minister was “misconstrued,” PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan said on Saturday.

“S Jaishankar has no link to PTI’s struggle,” Gohar said in a statement after Saif’s comments triggered sharp reactions from the ministers.

While appearing on the Dawn News programme Dusra Rukh on Friday, the KP government’s adviser said that the PTI welcomes every delegate and guest arriving in Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit later this month.

“Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar is welcome to come. We invite him to join our protest and strengthen the Constitution and Pakistan as a robust state. If Pakistan is strong and stands on its own feet, perhaps our relations with India will also improve, and peace will prevail in the region,” he said.

The PTI chairman clarified that the party’s policy about India never changed in its “27 years of struggle”.

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Gohar added that the longstanding 70-year policy of the state of Pakistan towards India forms the foundation of PTI’s stance and that “the political struggle of PTI is free from any interference from foreign nations, including India.”

He went on to add that no foreign official, including Jaishankar, has the authority to comment on Pakistan’s internal matters.

According to Gohar, peaceful protests are a constitutional right of the Pakistani people.