Prime Minister gave green light to NA Chairman to continue negotiations between government and PTI
LAHORE:
Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry reiterated the need for dialogue, stressing that negotiations are essential for the stability of the country.
He called on President Asif Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to take ownership of the negotiation process.
Speaking to the media after attending the trial, Chaudhry said the entire PTI leadership, including Shah Mahmood Qureshi, supported the talks.
Criticizing the government, he said it relied on “daily spectacles” to stay relevant and questioned how the country could function when people were facing sentences totaling “thousands of years”.
He also expressed disappointment at what he described as a lack of seriousness from the opposition and urged party leaders to show courage if they had accepted their responsibilities.
The Prime Minister has given the go-ahead to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to continue negotiations between the government and the PTI, sources said on Wednesday, a significant development in efforts to cool political temperatures.
Parliamentary sources said the government agreed to participate in the talks at the request of the Speaker of Parliament. However, the discussions will only take place with the elected representatives of the PTI, while no engagement is planned with non-elected figures of the party.
Despite the government’s desire, the sources said, no PTI leader has yet officially contacted the president’s office to begin the negotiation process, and initial outreach efforts remain pending from the opposition.
