The government has expanded a fresh invitation to negotiations to Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), where the National Assembly’s speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq emphasized that the doors to conversations had never been closed.
When he spoke informally with journalists at the Punjab assembly, Sadiq clarified that the government has always been open to negotiations with PTI, adding that the committee tasked with dealing with conversations has not been dissolved reported Express News.
He explained that the ball is before the PTI court to seek internal approval of conversations, after which the government would be ready to engage.
Sadiq assured the media that the government’s communication with PTI remains intact.
“We haven’t cut ties with PTI, and they’re still in contact with us,” he said.
He also acknowledged the leadership of PTI, especially Imran Khan, and called him a “hard individual” and recognized the complexity of engaging in the opposition.
Last week, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former Prime Minister Imran Khan swung to action at the same time, but precisely in the opposite directions as the current CEO asked the opposition party to resume talks through parliamentary committee, while the former Prime Minister dissolved his negotiating committee to close the chapter .
The Prime Minister said, while approaching the federal cabinet that the government was ready to form a parliamentary committee to continue the negotiations with PTI as opposed to PTI’s demand to constitute a legal commission, each of which should investigate May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024, Events.
“It takes two to Tango. This dialog must move forward so that the country can move on instead of bearing more harm because of their violent protests,” the prime minister said.
The premiere remembered how former Prime Minister Imran Khan had put together a parliamentary committee to investigate the 2018 election instead of forming a judicial commission and said he was also ready to pose a house committee to take lectures even after PTI “fled” from negotiations before getting a formal response from the government side.
PM Shehbaz’s offer has come only one day before the expiry of the government’s deadline to dissolve its negotiating committee, which was composed to hold conversations with PTI. In accordance with PTI Leadership’s previous attitude to boycotting conversations until the government announces legal commissions, the prisoner dissolved PTI’s founding its negotiating committee and prompted its members to work as a coordination committee to engage parties to make Grand Opposition Alliance.
After reflecting on the recent negotiations, the Prime Minister noted that the government had accepted PTI’s proposal, formed a committee and initiated conversations through the National Assembly’s speeches. The committee had asked PTI to present its claims in writing and the government agreed to give a written response. However, he said PTI withdrew from the scheduled meeting on January 28.
He also said that government representatives had assured PTI for a written response and invited them back to the table, but they did not come to participate in the fourth round of conversations between the two sides.
Meanwhile, the PTI negotiation committee’s spokesman Sahibzada Hamid Raza announced a statement of X on Thursday and said the opposition committee has formally been dissolved in accordance with Imran Khan’s directions. Raza added that the committee has now been converted into a coordination committee that will strive to make a magnificent opposition alliance against the ruling alliance.
During Khan’s vision, he said the opposition committee did not crush an inch from its attitude – constitution of legal commissions and sought “support” of the federal and provincial governments of bail, judgment suspensions and dismissal of “political prisoners” identified by PTI – and exposed the government’s Delay tactics. “On the basis of it,” he said, “the government failed to establish its false narrative.”
PTI had presented his charter of requirements to the government in the third round and said these requirements were presented as a “prerequisite for broader negotiations” on other issues. Seven days after the third round, however, the PTI founder suddenly interrupted the dialogue, on the grounds that the government had not accepted its demands for the Commission within a week. One day later, Barrister Gohar differs from the statement and said IMRAN had put the negotiations on.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui, spokesman for the government’s negotiating committee, had speculated why PTI interrupted the negotiations without waiting for the government’s response to its claims. He said the opposition could have found “an opening” if it came to the fourth round.
Siddiqui said statements were requested from constitutional and legal experts on PTI’s charter for claims. He also said the government had decided to withhold its final reaction for now and added that its negotiating committee would remain in place until January 31.
In response to the Prime Minister reached out during an interview for a private news channel, said the head of the opposition of the Omar Ayub National Assembly: “Shehbaz Sharif’s offer completely rejected.”
He said the opposition had clear intentions and demands, but that the government could not fulfill them.
