Islamabad:
On Tuesday, the Government maintained the door for dialogue with the opposition Ajar despite the announcement of the Pakistan Tehreek-E-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday that the conversations process was over, since its negotiation team did not appear in the Parliament House for a Parliament house for a fourth round.
The president of the National Assembly, Ayaz Sadiq, who played a crucial role in bringing representatives of the ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and the PTI of the opposition at the negotiating table, had invited both sides to the fourth round of conversations Tuesday.
However, the PTI boycotted the meeting. Later, the government’s side announced that its negotiation committee would wait until January 31 and if the PTI reversed its decision to end the conversations, the process could be resumed.
Previously, the president of the PTI, the lawyer Gohaha Ali Khan, while talking outside the Adiala prison after a meeting with the founder of the party, Imran Khan, announced that the negotiations with the government had ended, and added that his party was He joined the negotiations with an open heart, but those could not advance.
The negotiation between the Government and the opposition began on December 23, 2024, in order to find a solution to the political and economic problems facing the country, in addition to solving the long -standing spiny problems between the two parties.
However, the process hit a hitch just after three sessions. The PTI had presented its letter of demands to the government in the third round, which, demanded, among other things, the formation of separated judicial commissions on May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024 incidents.
In addition, the judicial commissions, PTI’s letter also sought the “support” of federal and provincial governments on bail, suspensions of sentences and absolute of “political prisoners” identified by the PTI. He said that these demands were presented as a “prerequisite for broader negotiations” on other issues.
However, seven days after the third round, the founder of PTI abruptly canceled the dialogue, with the argument that the Government had not accepted its demands for the commission within a week. A day later, the lawyer Gohar deviated from the statement and said that Imran had put the conversations waiting.
The head of the PTI negotiation team, Omar Ayub, while talking to the speaker on Monday, expressed concern about the use of the government to delay tactics to address the demands of the PTI. He insisted that negotiations could not proceed without the formation of judicial commissions.
In line with their ads, and despite the repeated quakes of the speaker, the members of the opposition did not appear in the conversations on Tuesday. The PTI remained firm that it would only sit across the table with the committee led by PML-N if the judicial commissions were established.
Senator Irfan Siddiqui, spokesman for the Government’s negotiation committee, wondered why the PTI canceled the conversations without waiting for the government’s response to its demands. He said the opposition could have found “an opening” if it were to the fourth round.
Siddiqui said the opinions were requested from constitutional and legal experts in the PTI demand letter. In addition, he declared that the government had decided to retain its final response for now, and added that its negotiation committee would remain in place until January 31.
Siddiqui admitted that the PTI had practically finished the negotiation process by not attending the fourth round of conversations. “The PTI made a unilateral decision; in itself the process that had begun,” he said, he added that if the PTI sat down to talk, the government was ready to resume the process.
Siddiqui emphasized that throughout the conversations process that the Government’s negotiation committee showed patience, despite the continuous impulse of PTI’s leadership for the civil disobedience movement.
President Ayaz Sadiq also announced that the Government Committee would remain intact despite the lack of PTI participation. He said that the absence of the PTI made the discussions make no sense, but “my doors remain open, and I hope that the conversations process will continue.”
The lawyer Gohar said that PTI negotiators sat with the government with an open heart, but unfortunately the negotiations could not move forward. “Negotiations are not carried out anywhere else or at any level,” added the president of PTI.
“We will continue our struggle and protests, even go to court. We will meet with the opposition parties against the 26th constitutional amendment and for a Judicial Power and the Independent Parliament. If we have any meeting anywhere in the negotiations, we will tell everyone “
In a separate statement, PTI’s central information secretary, Sheikh Waqas Akram criticized the government for “sinking the dialogue” and “blaming the PTI for derailing the process.” However, he said that the government lacked authority to accept the demands of the PTI.
“If the government really wanted conversations oriented to the results, it still has the key to reliving the dialogue when announcing a powerful judicial commission, which includes judges of the high -level Supreme Court and releasing all illegal political prisoners, including the founder of PTI, immediately. ” said.
On the other hand, the political assistant of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Rana Sanaullah, said that if Imran had chosen to sit with the president of PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, to speak, “I assure you that Mian Sahib would have given a positive response.”
He stressed that the PTI should have resisted its demands, but avoided canceling the negotiation process based on trivial problems. Now, he said: “We will wait for the PTI until the next elections in 2029”.
