The government has extended a new invitation to negotiations in Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI), the president of the National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq stressing that the doors of talks had never been closed.
Sadiq’s Sadiq’s Assembly, Sadiq said that the government has always been opened to negotiations with PTI, adding that the committee responsible for managing talks has not been dissolved, Express News reported .
He explained that the ball is in the PTI court to request internal approval for interviews, after which the government would be ready to engage.
Sadiq reassured the media that government communication with PTI remains intact.
“We have not broken the links with the PTI, and they are still in contact with us,” he said.
He also recognized the leadership of PTI, in particular Imran Khan, calling it as a “hard individual” and recognizing the complexities of engaging with the opposition.
Last week, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and former Prime Minister Imran Khan simultaneously took action, but exactly in the opposite directions, because the outgoing director general asked the opposition party to resume talks via the Parliamentary Committee while the former Prime Minister dissolved his negotiation committee to close the chapter.
The Prime Minister, while speaking to the federal office, said that the government was ready to form a parliamentary committee to continue the talks with the PTI as opposed to the request of PTI to constitute a judicial commission each to probe on May 9 2023 and November 26, 2024, incidents.
“It takes two in Tango. This dialogue should go ahead so that the country can progress, instead of causing more harm because of their violent protests,” said the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister recalled how former Prime Minister Imran Khan had formed a parliamentary committee to investigate the 2018 general elections instead of forming a judicial commission, affirming that he was also ready to constitute a committee of the Chamber to do Advance the talks even after PTI “fled” talks before making a formal response on the government side.
The offer of the PM Shehbaz one day came before the expiration of the government deadline to dissolve its negotiation committee, which was formed to speak with PTI. However, in accordance with the previous position of the management of PTI of Boycott of the talks until the government announces judicial commissions, the founder of PTI imprisoned finally dissolved his negotiation committee and has instructed his members to work as a committee of Coordination to start parties for having made the great opposition alliance.
By reflecting on recent negotiations, the Prime Minister noted that the government had accepted PTI’s proposal, trained a committee and launched talks through the president of the National Assembly. The committee had asked PTI to submit its requests in writing and the government agreed to provide a written response. However, he said, PTI withdrew from the meeting scheduled for January 28.
He added that government representatives had assured PTI of a written response and invited them to return to the table, but they did not come to attend the fourth round of the talks between the two parties.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the PTI negotiation committee, Sahibzada Hamid Raza, published a declaration on X on Thursday, declaring that the opposition committee had been officially dissolved in accordance with the instructions of Imran Khan. Raza added that the committee has now been converted to a coordination committee, which will endeavor to make a great opposition alliance against the power alliance.
Under Khan’s vision, he declared that the opposition committee had not moved an inch of its position – the constitution of judicial commissions and asked for the “support” of federal and provincial governments in release Under the surety, the suspensions of conviction and the acquittals of “political prisoners” identified by the PTIs – and the delay tactics of the government exposed. “Based,” he said, “the government has failed to establish its false story.”.
The PTI had presented its charter for requests to the government in the third round, claiming that these requests had been 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.
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.
Responding to the Prime Minister to reach out during an interview with a private news channel, the opposition chief in the National Assembly Omar Ayub said: “Shehbaz Sharif’s offer is completely rejected.”
He said the opposition had clear intentions and requests, but the government could not fill them.
