Islamabad:
On Tuesday, the government on Tuesday the door to dialogue with the opposition, despite the announcement from Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI), kept on Tuesday that the negotiation process had ended when its negotiating team did not appear in the House of Parliament for a fourth round.
National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who played a crucial role in bringing representatives of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-LED-LEGNING COALITION and opposition PTI at negotiating table on Tuesday.
However, PTI Boikoted the meeting. Later, the government page announced that its negotiating committee would wait until January 31, and if PTI turned his decision to end the conversations, the process could resume.
Earlier, PTI chairman Barristrister Gohar Ali Khan, while talking outside the Adiala prison after a meeting with the party’s founder, Imran Khan, announced.
The negotiation between the government and the opposition started on December 23, 2024, in order to find a solution to the political and economic issues facing the country, as well as to run the long -standing thorny questions between the two sides.
However, the process hit a disadvantage just after three meetings. PTI had presented its charter on the government requirements in the third round, which, among other things, required the formation of separate legal commissions on May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024 incidents.
In addition, the legal commissions, the PTI -Charter, also sought “support” of the federal and provincial governments of bail, sentencing and acquittal of “political prisoners” identified by PTI. It 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.
The PTI negotiation team Omar Ayub, while talking to the speaker on Monday, expressed concerns on Monday about the government’s use of delaying tactics to meet PTI’s demands. He insisted that negotiations could not continue without the formation of the judicial commissions.
In line with their messages, and despite repeated requests from the speaker, the opposition members did not show up on the negotiations on Tuesday. PTI remained firm that it would only sit across the table with the PML-N-led committee if the judicial commissions were established.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui, spokesman for the government’s negotiating committee, wondered why PTI interrupted the negotiations without waiting for the government’s response to its demands. 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.
Siddiqui admitted that PTI had practically completed the negotiation process by not participating in the fourth round of conversations. “PTI made a one -sided decision; it ended up in itself the process it had started,” he said, adding that if PTI sat for conversations, the government was ready to resume the process.
Siddiqui emphasized that the government’s negotiating committee during the entire negotiation process spans five weeks showed patience despite the PTI lead’s continued push for civil disobedience.
Speaking Ayaz Sadiq also announced that the Government Committee would remain intact despite the lack of PTI’s participation. He said the absence of PTI made the discussions meaningless, but “my doors remain open and I hope the process of conversations continues”.
Barrister Gohar said that PTI’s dealers were sitting with the government with an open heart, but unfortunately the negotiations could not move on. “No negotiations are held at anywhere else or at any level,” the PTI chairman added.
“We will continue our struggle and protests, including going to the courts. We will meet the opposition parties against the 26th constitutional change and for an independent judiciary and parliament. If we have any meeting everywhere regarding the negotiations, we will tell everyone.”
In a separate statement, PTI central information secretary Sheikh Waqas Agram threw the government to “scary the dialogue” and “accusation of PTI for derailing the process”. However, he claimed that the government lacked authority to accept PTI’s demands.
“If the government really wanted results-oriented conversations, it still has the key to reviving the dialogue by announcing a powerful judicial commission consisting of the senior-most Supreme Court judges and releasing all illegal, that political prisoners, including PTI’s founder, immediately,” he said.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s political help, Rana Sanaullah, said if Imran had chosen to sit with PML-N President Nawaz Sharif for conversations, “I assure you that Mian Sajib would have given a positive answer”.
He emphasized that PTI should have stood by its demands, but avoided giving the negotiation process on the basis of a trivial question. Now he said, “We will wait for PTI until the next election in 2029.”