Islamabad:
Tuesday, the government kept the door of dialogue with the upheaval opposition despite the announcement of Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) on Tuesday that the talks process had ended, because its negotiation team did not appear in Parliament for a fourth round.
The president of the National Assembly, Ayaz Sadiq, who played a crucial role in bringing him representatives of the Coalition Manager led by the Pakistani Muslim League (PML-N) and the opposition PTI at the negotiation table, had invited the two parties for the fourth round of discussions on the discussions on Tuesday.
However, the PTI boycotted the meeting. Later, the government party announced that its negotiation committee would wait until January 31 and if the PTI reversed its decision to end the talks, the process could resume.
Earlier, the president of the PTI, lawyer Gohar Ali Khan, while speaking outside the Adiala prison after a meeting with the founder of the party, Imran Khan, announced that negotiations with the government had taken At the end, adding that his party had joined the negotiations with an open heart, but they could not move forward.
The negotiation between the government and the opposition began on December 23, 2024, with a view to finding a solution to the political and economic problems facing the country, as well as to solve the long -time thorny problems between the two parties.
However, the process struck a hitch right after three sessions. The PTI had presented its charter for requests to the government in the third round, which, among other things, required the training of distinct judicial commissions on May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024.
In addition, the judicial commissions, the PTI charter also asked for the “support” of the federal and provincial governments in the release on bond, the suspensions of conviction and the acquittals of “political prisoners” identified by the PTI. He said these requests were presented as a “prerequisite for wider negotiations” on other questions.
However, seven days after the third round, the founder of the PTI suddenly canceled the dialogue, on the grounds that the government had not accepted its commission requests within one week. A day later, lawyer Gohar has dismissed the declaration and said that Imran had suspended the talks.
PTI Omar Ayub’s negotiation team, while speaking with the speaker on Monday, expressed his concerns concerning the government’s use of delay in the processing of PTI requests. He insisted that negotiations could not take place without the training of judicial commissions.
In accordance with their advertisements, and despite repeated requests from the speaker, opposition members did not appear on Tuesday at talks. The PTI remained categorical on the fact that it only sit through the table with the committee led by PML-N if the judicial commissions were established.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui, the spokesman for the government’s negotiation committee wondered why the PTI canceled the talks without delay the government’s response to his requests. He said that the opposition could have found “an opening” if it had come to the fourth round.
Siddiqui said that opinions had been requested from constitutional and legal experts from the PTI request charter. He also declared that the government had decided to retain its final response for the moment, adding that its negotiation committee would remain in place until January 31.
Siddiqui admitted that the PTI had practically ended the negotiation process by not participating in the fourth cycle of talks. “The PTI made a unilateral decision; it itself put an end to the process it had started,” he said, adding that if the PTI was seated for talks, the government was ready to resume the process.
Siddiqui stressed that throughout the process of talks that lasted more than five weeks, the government’s negotiation committee has shown patience, despite the pursuit of the PTI management for civil disobedience.
President Ayaz Sadiq also announced that the government committee would remain intact despite the lack of participation of the PTI. He said that the absence of the PTI had made discussions without meaning, but “my doors remain open, and I hope that the talks process will take place”.
Barrister Gohar said that the PTI negotiators were seated with the government with an open heart, but unfortunately, the negotiations could not go ahead. “No negotiations are held in any other place or at any level,” added the president of the PTI.
“We will continue our struggle and our demonstrations, including going to the courts. We will meet the opposition parties against the 26th constitutional amendment and for a judicial system and an independent parliament. If we have a meeting anywhere concerning the negotiations, we will say to everyone. “
In a separate declaration, the central secretary of central information, Sheikh Waqas Akram, criticized the government to “scuttle the dialogue” and “blame the PTI for derailing the process”. However, he said that the government did not have the power to accept PTI’s requests.
“If the government really wanted the results focused on the results, it still contains the key to relaunching the dialogue by announcing a powerful judicial commission, including the most main Supreme Court political judges and by publishing all the illegally detected political prisoners, Including the founder of PTI, immediately, “he said.
On the other hand, the political aid of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Rana Sanaullah, said that if Imran had chosen to sit with the president of PML-N Nawaz Sharif for talks, “I assure you that Mian Sahib would have given a positive response “.
He stressed that the PTI should have supported its requests, but avoided calling the negotiation process on the basis of a trivial issue. Now he said: “We will wait until the next elections in 2029.”
