Islamabad:
Friday, the Coalition Manager led by the Muslim League of Pakistan (PML-N) kept the loop of its negotiations with the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) on Friday, after PTI rejected the offer of the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif restarts discussions aimed at resolving the long -standing political and economic confrontation.
The government’s decision to put an end to the dialogue process intervened after the PTI has moved unexpectedly from the table, connecting other sessions to the training of judicial commissions to probe the incidents of May 9, 2023 and the 26th November 2024.
Confirmation came from Senator Irfan Siddiqui, spokesperson for the government’s negotiation committee, expressing its regrets with regard to PTI’s decision and stressing that the talks could have given the opportunity to settle thorny questions if Pti had continued the process.
SIDDIQUI Senator said PTI specifically took the names of the founder of PTI, Imran Khan and other leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Omar Cheema, Ijaz Chaudhry, Yasmin Rashid and Mahmood Rashid, and asked for their release, saying that Pti did not write these names in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter In his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charter in his charge of requests but declared that the government should facilitate his release.
“The only way to release Imran Khan and others is that the PTI asks the Prime Minister to recommend that the President forgive them,” Siddiqui Senator said speaking to a private media house, confirming that the dialogue process ‘is finished after the refusal of PTI PTI after the refusal of PTI PTI engaged in discussions through a parliamentary committee.
Siddiqui said PTI’s decision to move away from the table had left the government of other choice than to cancel negotiations. Reiterating that PTI refused to wait for the government’s response and abandoned the talks unilaterally, Siddiqui revealed that the power alliance had examined several points of the PTI request charter and was open to more in -depth discussions.
The senator said that the government did not reject the commission’s request, but thought that a parliamentary committee was the appropriate forum for such discussions.
The collapse of negotiations follows a series of developments, in particular the Prime Minister’s appeal so that the PTI resumes dialogue through a parliamentary committee, which has met the resistance of the opposition. Instead, PTI dissolved its negotiation committee and converted it to a coordination committee aimed at forming a broader opposition alliance against the government.
Siddiqui stressed that the government had been willing to continue dialogue, adding that expert opinions on PTI requests had been requested before the end of PTI talks. He also noted that a common ground could have been found if the opposition had attended the fourth cycle of negotiations.
“There is no dead end or breaking in negotiations at the moment; talks have ended,” said Siddiqui, “despite the Prime Minister’s offer, the answers he received are above all The world. “
Prime Minister Shehbaz had reiterated the government’s desire to continue dialogue through a parliamentary committee. While criticizing the insistence of the PTI on judicial commissions, the PM stressed that during the mandate of Imran Khan, similar disputes – such as those during the 2018 general elections – were referred to parliamentary committees rather than ‘to judicial investigations.
Negotiations, which began on December 23, 2024, aimed to meet political and economic challenges, but collapsed after only three sessions. PTI requests were presented in the third round as a prerequisite for wider talks.
However, PTI canceled the negotiations within one week, claiming that the government had not fulfilled its conditions of judicial commissions formed within seven days. The government, on the other hand, accused PTI of moving away prematurely from the process without waiting for an official response “within seven working days”.
Meanwhile, under the direction of Khan, PTI is now working to unite other opposition parties to try to put pressure on the power coalition. Omar Ayub, head of opposition to the National Assembly, confirmed these efforts, declaring that PTI “actively pursued” alliances to challenge the government.
Ayub has already rejected the Prime Minister’s invitation for talks, declaring: “Shehbaz Sharif’s offer is completely rejected.” He said that PTI had approached negotiations with clear intentions but that the government was not willing to respond to its requests.
