PARLIAMENT HOUSE (ISLAMABAD): The first round of parleys between Govt Committee and PTI Negotiation Committee was held here on Monday (23rd Dec 2024) with Speaker NA Sardar Ayaz Sadiq in the chair.
Deputy PM Ishaq Dar, Senator Irfan Siddiqui, Rana Sanaullah, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Abdul Aleem Khan and Dr Farooq Sattar formed the Govt Committee. Whereas, the PTI Committee harboured Asad Qaiser, Raja Nasir Abbas and Sahibzada Hamid Raza. Omar Ayub, Ali Amin, and Salman Akram Raja failed to participate in the discussion due to dates in courts or being abroad. PTI Committee will be presenting its charter of demands in writing on the next rendezvous scheduled to be held on 2nd January, 2025.
PTI had hailed, on Sunday (22nd Dec), the formation of Committee by the Govt on the suggestion of NA speaker to hold talks apropos Imran Khan’s call for civil disobedience if his demands including release of political prisoners and probing 9 May riots via Judicial Commission were not met. It may be recalled that Chairman PTI Barrister Gauhar called on NA Speaker Saturday (21st Dec) night maintaining that talks were the only way to figure out a solution to the current stalemate. He asked the speaker to play his role in this regard.
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