PTI forms a committee of 3 members to initiate talks on the political crisis

 

After Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Siraj-ul-Haq called for 'concerted action' to bridge the gap between the government and the opposition, the PTI on Sunday formed a three-member committee comprising the country. The current political crisis will be discussed.

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party has announced that a three-member committee consisting of Pervaiz Khattak, Ejaz Chaudhry, and Mian Mehmood ur Rasheed will hold a dialogue with the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) party, according to a statement issued recently. This move follows JI emir Sirajul Haq's call for a "consensus offensive" to bring the government and opposition closer, which included meetings with PTI Chairman Imran Khan and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Lahore on Saturday.

During these meetings, Haq proposed setting up a committee to develop a larger consensus for holding elections in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtun­khwa, and eventually the whole country. Both PM Shehbaz and Imran appreciated Haq's efforts and agreed that elections were the way forward to pull the country out of prevailing economic, political, and constitutional crises. They also assured Haq of their full cooperation.

Sources within the JI have revealed that Haq also plans to meet with PPP leader Asif Zardari after Eid, hoping for a breakthrough in the next two weeks. Earlier, Zardari suggested that all political parties sit together and develop a consensus on a single date for the elections, forming a three-member body consisting of Senator Yousuf Raza Gillani, Federal Minister for Commerce Syed Naveed Qamar, and PM's Adviser on Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira for this purpose.

The main task of the three PPP leaders is to persuade the PML-N and JUI-F to hold talks with PTI on all issues, including elections, to end the ongoing crises. The last few days have emphasized the importance of dialogue between all political parties in the country, with a Dawn editorial urging key leaders to sit at a table and talk, stating that "inflexible egos have no place in a democratic political system." It added that politics involved compromise and that the country could not afford an all-out catastrophe.