Islamabad:

Pakistani Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) -LED-Government Coalition pulled the plug on its negotiations with the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) Friday, after PTI rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer to restart lectures aiming for to solve the long -standing political and economic standoff.

The government’s decision to end the dialogue process came after PTI unexpectedly went away from the table and linked further meetings with the formation of legal commissions to investigate May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024, events.

The confirmation came from Senator Irfan Siddiqui, the spokesman for the government’s negotiating committee, who expressed regret over PTI’s decision and emphasized that conversations could have given an opportunity to run thorny questions if PTI continued the process.

Senator Siddiqui said PTI specifically took the names of PTI founder Imran Khan and other leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Omar Chemema, Ijaz Chaudhry, Yasmin Rashid and Mahmood Rashid, and demanded their release as they said PTI did not write these names in his charly of demands, but said the government should facilitate their release.

“The only way to release Imran Khan and others is for PTI to ask the Prime Minister to recommend the president to pardon them,” said Senator Siddiqui while talking to a private media house, confirming that the dialogue process has completed after PTI’s refusal to participate in discussions through a parliamentary committee.

Siddiqui declared that PTI’s decision to go away from the table left the government without any election other than to interrupt the negotiations. Siddiqui revealed that PTI refused to wait for the government’s answers and abandoned the conversations one -sided, Siddiqui revealed that the ruling alliance had considered several points from PTI’s Charter of Requirements and was open for further discussions.

The Senator said the government did not directly reject the Commission’s claims, but believed that a parliamentary committee was the appropriate forum for such discussions.

The collapse of the negotiations follows a number of developments, including the Prime Minister’s call to PTI to resume dialogue through a parliamentary committee met with opposition from the opposition. Instead, PTI dissolved his negotiating committee and converted it to a coordination committee aimed at forming a broader opposition alliance against the government.

Siddiqui emphasized that the government had been willing to continue the dialogue, adding that expert opinions about PTI’s demands had been sought before PTI suddenly ended conversations. He also noted that an intermediate plot could have been found if the opposition participated in the fourth round of negotiations.

“There is no stalemate or collapse in the negotiations in this moment; the negotiations have ended,” Siddiqui said, “despite the prime minister’s offer, the answers he has received are before everyone.”

PM Shehbaz had repeated the government’s willingness to continue dialogue through a parliamentary committee. While criticizing PTI’s insistence on judicial commissions, the Prime Minister pointed out that similar disputes – like those during Imran Khan’s term of office – as those over the 2018 election – referred to parliamentary committees rather than judicial investigations.

The negotiations, which began on December 23, 2024, aimed to tackle political and economic challenges, but collapsed after only three meetings. PTI’s requirements were presented in the third round as a prerequisite for broader lectures.

However, PTI interrupted the negotiations within a week and claimed that the government had not fulfilled its conditions to constitute legal commissions within seven days. The government, on the other hand, accused PTI too early to go away from the process without awaiting a formal answer “within seven working days”.

Meanwhile, PTI is working under Khan’s direction now to unite other opposition parties in an attempt to mount pressure on the prevailing coalition. Omar Ayub, opposition leader in the National Assembly, confirmed these efforts and said PTI “actively pursues” alliances to challenge the government.

Ayub has already dismissed the prime minister’s invitation to conversations, where he says, “Shehbaz Sharif’s offer is completely rejected.” He claimed that PTI had approached negotiations with clear intentions, but that the government was not willing to meet its demands.