ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) submitted a thorough report on negotiations with the ruling alliance to the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday, as per a local news channel.
The report, which has been filed to the SC Registrar’s Office, contains information about three rounds of talks with the coalition government.
Fawad said on Twitter earlier today that the party will also request the Supreme Court to implement its order [April 4 verdict] regarding the Punjab Assembly elections in its report.
More rounds of talks will remain meaningless’
PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the party sought to carry the situation ahead with good intentions and that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar praised the party’s flexibility. He stated that the PTI demonstrated flexibility for national consensus, adding that, on the one hand, conversations were conducted while, on the other hand, the government invaded our leaders’ homes.
Govt-PTI agrees on single-day polls
The third round of discussions between Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the ruling coalition ended late Tuesday, and both parties agreed to hold general elections across the country on the same day. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was represented at the talks by a team of three-member consisting of Senator Ali Zafar, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and Fawad Chaudhry.
Meanwhile, the ruling coalition delegation includes PML-N members Ishaq Dar, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Khawaja Saad Rafique, and Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, as well as PPP members Syed Naveed Qamar and Senator Yousuf Raza Gilani. Following the meeting, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar from the government’s side told the media that a consensus had been reached on holding elections on the same day across the country under a caretaker setup.
The finance minister said that both parties had proposed dates for national elections. “Both sides are still at odds on one point on the agenda, adding that another meeting will be held soon. Ishaq Dar further said that the delegations will speak with their respective leaders. He said that both parties are being flexible in the negotiations.
Political impasse
The government promised the Supreme Court (SC) that it would hold talks on April 26 with the opposition about elections in two provinces.
During the last hearing of Supreme Court’s last hearing on the polls delays case, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) assured the court that they would sit with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to try to find a solution on the election date. In its April 4 order, the Supreme Court declared the decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to postpone elections to the Punjab Assembly until October 8 “unconstitutional” and set May 14 as a new date.
The National Assembly (NA) later passed a resolution rejecting the Supreme Court’s three-member bench’s judgment on the Punjab elections, indicating that it would not allocate funds to the Election Commission of Pakistan for polling.
