Summary Talks between government and PTI are likely to resume today.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Talks between the government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) likely to resume today (Sunday), Dunya News reported. Sources have revealed that PTI will be presenting a new proposal to the government in terms of negotiations.
According to the sources, the much awaited talks between the government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf are likely to resume today in Islamabad. PTI will be presenting a new proposal to the government to probe allegations of rigging in last year’s elections. PTI’s core committee for negotiations will propose to pass a resolution in the National Assembly according to which the judicial commission will probe into the electoral rigging allegations within a timeframe of 30 days. PTI urges that in case the judicial commission gathered evidence of alleged election rigging, Nawaz Sharif would immediately resign from his office. Moreover, assemblies will be dissolved and transparent and fair elections would be held under a care-taker government as per PTI’s new proposal to be brought in during the dialogue with the government.
Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) had suspended the dialogue process with the government.
PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the Punjab Governor was informed about the suspension of talks with the government negotiating team. Qureshi held a telephonic conversation with Chaudhry Sarwar and told him that the PTI team will not come to the hotel for the negotiation.
Member of the negotiation committee, Ahsan Iqbal said that both the parties have a consensus over not being a laughing stock. PTI has presented 6 demands before the government which shall be reviewed within the party and we’re hopeful for the dialogues to bear positive outcome, he added.
Vice Chairman PTI Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that PTI is a democratic party and they are not negotiating upon anybody else’s indication.
The PTI and the government have both formulated their respective teams for negotiations. The team representing the government constituted governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar and federal ministers viz Pervez Rashid, Zahid Hamid, Ahsan Iqbal and Abdul Qadir Baloch whereas the negotiating team representing PTI constituted Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Javed Hashmi, Asad Umer, Jahangir Tareen and Arif Alvi.
The negotiations took place in a hotel in Islamabad after which Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that they had presented their demands before the government and would be awaiting for their response after consultation.
