On Sunday, National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq invited negotiation committees from both the government and the opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), to discuss important issues today (Monday). He expressed his approval of the Prime Minister’s establishment of an eight-member negotiation team.
The Prime Minister’s committee includes senior members of the ruling coalition, such as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, political aide Rana Sanaullah, and Senator Irfan Siddiqui, as announced by the Prime Minister’s office. Other notable members are former Prime Minister and PPP leader Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, PPP’s Naveed Qamar, MQM-P’s Dr. Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, as well as Federal Ministers Aleem Khan (Privatization) and Chaudhry Salik Hussain (Religious Affairs), alongside Sardar Khalid Magsi.
In response, PTI formed its own committee, which consists of Omar Ayub, Asad Qaiser, Salman Akram Raja, Ali Amin Gandapur, and Sahibzada Hamid Raza. Speaker Sadiq emphasized the importance of good faith in the discussions and personally extended a meeting invitation for both committees at 11:30 a.m. on Monday in his chambers at the Parliament House.
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PTI’s main demands center around the release of their workers and an independent investigation into the events of May 9 and November 26. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, via his account on ‘X’, warned that if the government does not demonstrate seriousness about their demands by December 22, PTI would initiate the first phase of a civil disobedience movement, including a boycott of foreign currency remittances.
Khan’s sister, Aleema Khan, shared that if the government reaches out for negotiations regarding these two key demands, they would consider halting their remittance movement. She conveyed this message to reporters outside Adiala Jail, reiterating the urgent need for dialogue from the government.
