Following a one-hour meeting with the Chief Adviser on Saturday night, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman stated, "We conveyed that holding elections before implementing key reforms would fail to meet public expectations." He was joined by senior leaders Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher, Asif Mahmud, and National Consensus Commission Vice President Ali Riaz. Earlier, Taher told the press, “We’ve come to discuss the overall situation of the country.”