ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The federal minister for information Pervaiz Rasheed has said that the federal government is willing to resume dialogue with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) where it was cut off.
However, he said, the PTI Chairman Imran Khan would have to return to his container instead of shutting down cities.
Talking to media in Islamabad on Wednesday, the minister said that the dialogues was discontinued on the direction of Imran Khan.
The information minister said that at that time when Imran Khan was on the container, the federal finance minister Ishaq Dar and the PTI senior leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi were discussing the ways to come out of the crisis.
Rasheed said that now Imran Khan should abandon his plan of closing different cities and come on the previous stage to provide a conducive environment for dialogue.
The minister said that the judicial commission would be constituted and will start functioning when there will be a conducive environment for its functioning and the decisions of the commission will be accepted and not criticized.
On Tuesday, the PTI asked the federal government to demonstrate a level of seriousness if it wants the resumption of talks with the PTI, adding that dialogue should resume from where it was cut off.
The PTI spokesperson Shireen Mazari while speaking to reporters after a meeting of the party’s central executive committee on Tuesday, stressed that the PTI would not accept conditional talks.
The sources that the PTI’s core committee decided that ‘Plan C’ would only be called off after a written agreement was signed between the two sides on the formation of a judicial commission to investigate allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections and the finalization of the commission’s terms of reference.
