Nationwide Meeting Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly given the go-ahead to Nationwide Meeting Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to proceed with negotiations between the federal government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources mentioned on Wednesday, a major improvement in efforts to chill political temperatures.
Parliamentary sources mentioned that the federal government facet has agreed to participate within the talks on the speaker’s request. Nevertheless, discussions will solely be held with PTI’s elected representatives, whereas no engagement is deliberate with unelected occasion figures.
Regardless of the federal government’s readiness, the sources mentioned, no PTI chief has but formally approached the Workplace of the Speaker to start the negotiation course of, and preliminary outreach stays pending from the opposition’s facet.
Speaker Ayaz Sadiq has in the meantime retained the present parliamentary committee construction. The sources mentioned that if the opposition indicators willingness, the speaker is ready to instantly convene a gathering of the committee to start formal discussions.
Nevertheless, regardless of the speaker’s earlier invitation, there was no contact so removed from the opposition benches. The speaker has already supplied PTI the choice of attending negotiations inside his parliamentary chamber.
The final formal interplay between PTI representatives and the speaker came about over the nomination of Mahmood Khan Achakzai because the chief of the opposition within the Nationwide Meeting.
