ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan led by prime minister Nawaz Sharif is not approaching the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) for resumption of dialogue after all the parliamentary parties urged it not to contact them unless the protesters themselves express their willingness to restart it.
These parties told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that since the PTI and PAT had unilaterally terminated the talks, they should show readiness for their revival if they were sincere to resolve the contentious issues through peaceful means.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Senator Aitzaz Ahsan confirmed in a TV interview that it were the parliamentary parties including the opposition, which impressed upon the prime minister not to reach out to the PTI and PAT seeking recommencement of the parleys, as it was not the government which severed the process but it were the protesters, who ceased it.
These parties wanted the PTI and PAT to come down from their unnecessary high-flying position and realise the usefulness of the talks. They even asked the government not to take any step, accepting any demand of the PTI or PAT, till the time the dialogue resumes and these protesters show seriousness.
As separate parleys were progressing with the PTI and PAT, they individually but simultaneously announced to finish the exercise saying that it would be resumed only after their arrested workers were released. Almost all the activists of the two parties have since been freed either on court orders or by the government itself because the sit-ins are experiencing dwindling attendance.
But egos of Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadri are not allowing them to accept that their workers have been released.
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