Malik Waqar
Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said the ruling PML-N has never called off its talks with Imran Khan’s PTI and that the two parties have been in contact.
“We [the government] have never closed the door on talks,” Speaker Sadiq said on Friday during an information interaction with journalists outside the Punjab Assembly.
The speaker facilitated rare talks between the PML-N and the PTI which started in December and culminated after three rounds after the PTI announced withdrawing from the negotiation.
Sadiq said the PML-N has never dissolved its negotiation team.
He claimed that the PTI negotiation team will resume the process once it gets an approval from its leadership. “The two parties are still in touch,” he said, adding that the PTI’s incarcerated founder, Imran Khan, is “a tough guy”.
The government and the PTI agreed to hold talks to bring an end to an ongoing political crisis in a meeting between Sadiq and PTI leader and former NA speaker Asad Qaiser.
During the talks, the PTI demanded formation of judicial commissions to probe the incidents that transpired on May 9, 2023 and November 26, 2024.
However, in the last week of January, the PTI unexpectedly walked away from the table, linking further sittings with the formation of judicial commissions.
