Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, and the president of the National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, met Islamabad on Sunday, with the “attitude” of the PTI during recent conversations with the government under discussion.
After more than a year of high tensions between the government and the PTI, the two parties began the dialogue in the last week of December to reduce political temperatures. But despite the weeks of negotiations, the dialogue process was arrested on important issues: the formation of two judicial commissions and the release of PTI prisoners.
The PTI boycotó the fourth meeting this week, canceling the conversations about a delay in the government that formed judicial commissions to investigate the protests of May 9, 2023 and on November 26, 2024. While the Government renewed the invitation to the PTI to Uniting the negotiation process by proposing a parliamentary committee, the latter rejected the offer.
Naqvi met today with the speaker of NA, where both discussed matters of mutual interest and the general situation in the country, a statement from the Ministry of Interior said.
He added that PTI’s attitude, despite the positive progress made by the Government for negotiations, “was also discussed during the meeting.
The Interior Minister praised Sadiq’s efforts to take “all parts of the opposition and government parties together,” the statement added.
“Ayaz Sadiq has played a commendable role in the elaboration of government and opposition parties,” Naqvi said.
The Government and the Opposition negotiation committees included members of several parties from both sides. The politicians of the PML-N party, PPP, MQM-P, PML-Z and Baluchistan Awami represented the ruling coalition. On the other hand, PTI leaders, Majlis Wahdat-I-Muslimeen and the Sunita Ittehad Council were part of the opposition team.
Naqvi and Sadiq also expressed their satisfaction with the “improvement of the economic situation” of the country, said the Ministry of Interior, added that they also discussed the steps taken by the government to solve public problems.