ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday proposed the formation of a parliamentary committee to advance negotiations with jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) after talks faltered with the opposition party.
The two sides on December 23 last year initiated talks but the process entered into a dead alley just after three sittings when the PTI walked away over the issue of delay in the formation of judicial commissions on events of May 9, 2023, and November 26 last year.
As the parleys ran aground, the PTI announced a re-launch of agitations and said February 8 would be observed as a “Black Day” to protest the alleged rigging in the polls held last year. It plans to hold rallies in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swabi and Punjab’s Lahore on February 8.
Shehbaz while addressing a meeting of the federal Cabinet made a bid to cool the tempers and offered a way forward by saying that a bipartisan committee be formed to probe the events.