PTI forms committee to hold talks with govt on elections
Pakistan
Govt responds positively and forms committee
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday constituted a three-member committee to hold talks with the PDM-led government over the latter’s decision to hold simultaneous elections in the country.
The committee contains PTI vice chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi, PTI senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry, and senator Ali Zafar. The move comes as the Supreme Court had ordered the political stakeholders to end political deadlock and submit a report by April 27.
The government, represented by federal law minister Azam Nazir Tarar and railway minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, responded positively and asked Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani to nominate five senators each from the government and the opposition to form a committee.
The government representatives also requested the chairman to provide space in the parliament to hold negotiations. Mr Sanjrani will write to the opposition in this regard. So far Opposition leader in the senate Dr Shehzad Wasim and PTI leader Asad Umar have been approached.
