LAHORE:
The PPP has delayed its weight for dialogue with the PTI, after the surface of a letter on social networks supposedly written by the imprisoned leadership of PTI Punjab.
The letter, written from the bars, advocates to initiate a national dialogue to withdraw the country from the edge of political paralysis.
PPP’s Secretary of Information, Nadeem Afzal, responding to a publication on social networks with the letter, said that if the letter was genuine, it represented a positive development.
He added that the government should involve PTI in the dialogue to strengthen democracy.
AFZAL said that a visionary approach was necessary, similar to that of the former leader of the PPP Benazir Bhutto, under whose leadership the letter of democracy was formulated.
According to reports, the letter written by four imprisoned PTI leaders: former Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, former provincial ministers Mehmood-Ur-Rasheed and Yasmin Rashid, and former Punjab governor, Umar Sarfraz Chema, emphasized the urgent need for dialogue at all platforms, even with the government and the establishment.
He also asked that PTI’s leadership is given access to the pattern in chief of the party, Imran Khan, so that they could seek their continuous guide on all matters.
The Secretary General of PPP Central Punjab, Hasan Murtaza, speaking with the Express PAkGazette, said that the dialogue was the appropriate way to solve long -data political problems, but emphasized that the dialogue should be maintained only with political interested parties.
He said it was time for the founder of PTI to “begin to behave as a party leader, not a military chief.”
When commenting on recent developments in the Punjab Assembly, Murtaza said the PPP supported the actions taken against the members of the Provincial Assembly of PTI, arguing that their conduct had justified such measures.
