Islamabad:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) has once again changed a tone on the already fragile negotiations with the government, suggesting that he could return to the table one day after announcing a dead end.
Last Friday, the former ruling party declared that he could be opened in pursuit of negotiations, but only if the government met his main requirements – the creation of judicial commissions and the liberation of political prisoners, including the founder of the PTI, Imran Khan.
The conditional offer follows the previous position of the PTI of January 23, when it had set a strict period for the training of the judicial commissions, but the party then suspended the negotiations after the government did not act in the time limit.
The president of the PTI, the lawyer Gohar, had declared earlier than the party leader had suspended negotiations due to the government’s inability to respond to party demands.
The hesitant position of the party in difficulty was exposed when he not only refused to participate in the fourth cycle of negotiations, scheduled for January 28, but also insisted that the discussions could only resume if the government accepted his requests.
Addressing the media outside the Parliament, Gohar first said that the talks had been canceled after the government refused to respond to the PTI’s request to establish judicial commissions within seven days.
However, the government rejected it, qualifying the deadline set by the PTI of “unhappy” and specifying that the initial agreement referred to “seven working days”, which means that the response time was not yet exceeded .
In a reversal of his previous statement, Gohar said that Imran had simply suspended the talks, not completely canceled them. He quickly added that the PTI could reconsider negotiations with the government if its conditions were met, adding that this would demonstrate the sincerity of the government.
Gohar also pointed out that the lack of progress revealed the real intentions of the government, wondering what prevented him from now announcing the training of the commissions.
The essential negotiations between the PML-N and the PTI opposition experienced a brutal judgment on January 23 after Imran ordered Gohar to cancel negotiations with the power coalition for not having formed judicial commissions responsible for Investigate the incidents of May 9 and November 26 within the stipulated deadlines. time.
Following the decision of the PTI, the spokesman for the government’s negotiation committee, Senator Irfan Siddiqui, said that the deadline was still not exceeded, as he had been agreed at the last meeting that the government party would respond to the Charter of PTI claims within “seven working days” and not in only seven days.
The spokesperson for the government commission for negotiation said that he had been decided during the third cycle of negotiations between the two parties that the government commission would subject his response within seven working days, which, according to him, would end On January 28, the day when the president of the National Parliament The Assembly summoned the committee meeting at 11:45 am.
Reiterating that the PTI must review its decision, Siddiqui said that the PTI had taken 42 days to submit its claims charter but demanded the government’s response within one week, wondering why it could not only wait five days moreover.
He said that the government committee diligently worked to prepare for his response, but that the PTI returned to the same eagerness with which he had come to discuss with the alliance in power, adding “we ask them to wait a while” And to review the decision.
Currently, the fate of the negotiations is at stake since the PTI clearly indicated that the only way to get out of the dead end was to build the commissions as he wished. However, the government side maintains that the opposition should have awaited the government’s response before canceling negotiations.
Commenting on rumors that the government was not willing to build up commissions, Siddiqui said that the PTI Committee should have at least listened to the government’s written response at the next meeting, because the government never said that ‘It would not constitute judicial commissions.
In addition, he said, it would have been preferable that the PTI makes a written declaration to put an end to the talks instead of transmitting it to the government via the media.
Following the PTI’s refusal, Siddiqui had declared that the government commission would sit and decide to follow on January 28.
The two parties had been seated around the table on December 23, 2024 to discuss long -standing problems and find a way to follow. Since then, the commissions have met three times. In accordance with the government’s request, the PTI had submitted its claim charter at the third meeting on January 16 and awaited its response.
The talks aimed at bringing political and economic stability to the country by solving long -standing problems between the two parties. However, the two parties challenged the deadline fixed and, therefore, the process ended suddenly.
