• Dialogue Committee to continue working until January 31, since the speaker says ‘still open doors’ for conversations
• PTI Woos Jui-F again to place a front of the Board; Asad Qaiser and Kamran Murtaza commissioned to ensure that there are no misunderstandings this time
Islamabad: The Government has decided to give the PTI a opportunity to join the dialogue after the opposition party did not appear in the fourth round of conversations on Tuesday, in which the government had promised to share its response to its letter of demands.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui, the spokesman for the government’s negotiation team, said they would wait for the PTI until the end of the month.
“After the committee meeting, which was skipped by the PTI, we (the Government) sat together and decided … We will wait until January 31, the deadline given by the PTI to fulfill its demands.”
He said the conversations were “practically” in the end after the opposition party jumped the fourth round, and added that they would approach the prime minister for the dissolution of the body since he had formed this committee for conversations.
When asked if the government had shared its response with the meeting, the PML-N senator said the PTI would have found the response quite satisfactory if they had attended the meeting on Tuesday. The senator said his response was quite close to the fulfillment of his demands. “The government could have demonstrated greater flexibility if the PTI had not left the dialogue process,” he added.
“If you can approach the speaker before the deadline of January 31 or if they think that this door must be opened again … then you can contact the speaker and our committee will still sit and talk to them before 31, or even after That date we can continue this process, ”he added.
Senator Siddiqui said that the government “brought this process with great patience” and that the responsibility was now on the other side to approach the Na speaker to restart this process.
In response to a question about the government’s answer to PTI’s demands, he said that his answer was not yet announced. “… we will not share publicly since it had been decided that it was a matter of the committee to the committee and they (PTI) did not join,” he said, added that PTI could have shared his disagreements at the meeting. The PML-N senator added that the Committee would consider its next action plan if the PTI reconsider its decision.
Meanwhile, the president of Na, Ayaz Sadiq, said that their doors remained open and expressed hope that the opposition will have conversations to find a path to follow.
“The committee met today. We expect about 45 minutes for our friends in the opposition to come. We send the secretary to the opposition leader who said “it seems that they will not come to the meeting,” he added.
“My doors remain open. Again I express hope for the government and the opposition to maintain conversations to find a path to follow, “he said, added:” In the negotiations, it does not present conditions first: it feels (to talk) and negotiate, where the decisions are. done in what is accepted and what is not, if there is an alternative proposal. ”
Vice -Prime Minister Ishaq Dar said to the media that the government team had come to the meeting with an answer to the demands of the PTI. “We had prepared for conversations; I wish they had come, ”he said, noting that the conversations are within the scope of the Constitution.
But later in the day, a scathing position in the official account of X of the founder of PTI Imran Khan said that the government was avoiding the formation of judicial commissions and that the PTI could not advance without action on this demand.
“The fact is that when we came for negotiations for the good of the country, they panicked as soon as they heard the demand of the commission because their intentions were defective,” said the tweet.
Meanwhile, the president of the PTI, the lawyer Gohaha Ali Khan, told the journalists in Islamabad that the party had already made it clear that it was not sitting to talk for “hello greeting or photo sessions”, and added that the government still He had not announced the commissions as defendants.
PTI, Jui-F meet again
Meanwhile, the PTI intensified its efforts to form a joint opposition front and asked the Jui-F leadership to join.
Both parties had also decided to come to a single platform against the government before, but things did not advance and the PTI began negotiating with the government to calm the tensions.
A delegation of PTI, directed by Omer Ayub, visited the residence of Jui-F Maulana Fazlur Rehman and made initial consultations about the appointment of the electoral chief commissioner and two members of the Commission.
“The government has not met any of the demands we make for the conversations,” said Ayub after the meeting.
“Neither the Commission to investigate the incidents of May 26 and 9 has formed, nor did the government free our workers and carriers from the office in accordance with the law. We have not allowed us to meet our leader Imran Khan without interference … “he said.
“It was during the negotiations that I was arrested outside the Adiala prison, while the police recently raided the seminar of MNA Sahibzada Hamid Raza, the head of the Sunita Ittehad Council,” said the leader of PTI.
Senator Jui-F Kamran Murtaza said that the tensions of the relations between the two parties that existed before the 26th amendment had been buried.
He added that a two -members committee, which includes itself asad Qaiser, had established itself to guarantee a working relationship without problems. Between the two parts.
Posted in Dawn, January 29, 2025
