• Other side showed neither goodwill nor intention, says Omar Ayub.
• He complains of Govt’s failure to demonstrate firm commitment to conversations.
• The role of the speaker limited to relief, clarifies the NA spokesman.

Islamabad: Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf’s (PTI) National Assembly’s opposition leader Omar Ayub Khan has excluded the possibility of resuming the dialogue between the former reigning party and the current government, The news Reported on Sunday.

“The chapter in the negotiations is now closed,” Ayub said on Saturday, adding that political negotiations were not based on mere wishes, but required fixed obligations that the government could not demonstrate.

Censoring the coalition government’s approach to conversations that now appears to be collapsed, the senior PTI leader said his party’s committee had begun discussions in good faith, but the other side showed neither goodwill nor intention, leading to a stalemate.

His remarks come on the basis of the negotiations between PTI and the ruling government – which began in late December after months of increased political tensions – witnessed no remarkable progress despite the two sides that had three negotiating sessions.

PTI, who also presented his written charter of claims, refused to participate in the fourth round of conversations with reference to the government’s failure to form a legal commission to investigate May 9 riots and November 2024 protests.

Since then, Imran Khan-founded party has suggested agitation and even held a rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Swabi one day earlier to observe ‘Black Day’ Saturday-Mod alleged rigging at the parliamentary elections last year.

With Parley’s future, which is uncertain, a spokesman for the National Assembly has clarified that Speeches Ayaz Sadiq had not formally invited PTI to negotiations, but merely stated that as the custodian of parliament remains open to all members.

In response to a statement from PTIS AYUB, the spokesman said a formal invitation to conversations would only be extended if it did not request if the government nor the opposition requested. He reiterated that the speaker’s role was to facilitate dialogue and that both his chamber and stay remain available to all legislators.

Separately, repeating Ayub’s comments on the future of conversations, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senator Irfan Siddiqui also said that the government’s negotiating committee had become “virtually non-functional and ineffective”.

In a statement about X, he said regardless of whether the committee was formally dissolved, it was no longer operational. He noted that PTI is one -sided withdrew from the negotiation process and then rejected the Prime Minister’s offer to rethink their attitude.

The senator accused PTI of returning to his “home ground for violent protests” and said that if the party later decides to participate in conversations, the government can reassess its opportunities at that time.

Meanwhile, PTI chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has stated that the party did not seek intervention from any country, including the United States, to release his founder.

“We do not ask any country, including the US, about Khan’s release. He has not entered into any agreement and will not enter into any agreement.

“As Khan himself said, we are not negotiating an agreement, but for Pakistan and Democracy,” Gohar said in a statement.