Lahore:
PPP has thrown its weight behind calls for dialogue with PTI after the surface of a letter on social media, allegedly written by PTI Punjab’s imprisoned leadership.
The letter, which is bound behind the columns, advocates for initiating a national dialogue to withdraw the country from the brink of political paralysis.
PPP Information Secretary Nadeem Afzal, who responded to a social media post with the letter, said that if the letter was genuine, it represented a positive development.
He added that the government should engage PTI in dialogue to strengthen democracy.
Afzal said there was a need for a visionary approach similar to former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, under whose leadership of the Charter of Democracy was formulated.
The letter, reportedly written by four imprisoned PTI leaders-recently Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, former provincial ministers Mehmood-Ur-Rasheed and Yasmin Rashid, and former Punjab Governor Umar Sarfraz Cheema-understated the pressing need for dialogue across all platforms.
It also called for the PTI management to gain access to the party’s cartridge-in-chief, Imran Khan, so that they could seek his continued guidance on all questions.
PPP Central Punjab Secretary General Hasan Murtaza, who spoke with Express Pakinomist, said the dialogue was the appropriate path to solving many years of political issues, but emphasized that dialogue should only be held with political stakeholders.
He said it was time for PTI’s founder to “begin to behave like a party jef, not a military chief”.
In a comment on the recent development of the Punjab assembly, Murtaza said PPP supported actions taken against PTI’s provincial assembly members, arguing that their behavior had justified such measures.
