{"id":15670,"date":"2023-04-27T23:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2023-04-27T23:00:02","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T18:00:02","slug":"govt-pti-finally-on-negotiation-table-for-talks-on-election-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-pti-finally-on-negotiation-table-for-talks-on-election-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt &#038; PTI finally on negotiation table for talks on election date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Govt &amp; PTI finally on negotiation table for talks on election date. The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Thursday finally sat on the negotiating table to discuss the poll date following Supreme Court&#8217;s orders.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of talks \u2014 which lasted for around two hours \u2014 at the Parliament House&#8217;s Committee Room Number 3, both sides informed each other about their top leadership&#8217;s stance, reported by a private news channel. The second meeting will be held tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first round of talks between the PDM parties and PTI has begun at the parliament. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ElRq0Qopfw\">pic.twitter.com\/ElRq0Qopfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roohan Ahmed (@Roohan_Ahmed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Roohan_Ahmed\/status\/1651575626187276288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s delegation comprised Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Yousaf Raza Gilani, Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, and Commerce Minister Naveed Qamar.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/180-mnas-repose-trust-in-pm-shehbaz-sharif.html\">180 MNAs repose trust in PM Shehbaz Sharif<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The opposition&#8217;s delegation included PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi, PTI Senior Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry\">Fawad Chaudhry<\/a>, and the party&#8217;s top legal expert Barrister Ali Zafar.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation informed the government about PTI Chairman Imran Khan&#8217;s stance on elections and about how the elections should be conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to journalists after the meeting, Gilani said the ruling parties would consult each other and make a decision. &#8220;Whatever is decided, it will be based on input from all parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Qureshi, while speaking to the media, the consultations ended after two hours and stressed that political parties find solutions to problems through talks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have entered the talks with a spirit of arriving at a decision [&#8230;] but we will not allow the talks to be used as a delaying tactic for polls,&#8221; the PTI vice chairman said.<\/p>\n<p>According a sources PTI presented three demands before the government delegation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The national and provincial assemblies should be dissolved in May this year and for extending polls beyond May 14, amendment should be made to the Constitution;<\/li>\n<li>If the government decides to amend Constitution, then PTI&#8217;s resignations will have to be called back;<\/li>\n<li>Elections should be held across the country in July this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Govt &amp; PTI finally on negotiation table for talks on election date. The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)-led government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Thursday finally sat on the negotiating table to discuss the poll date following Supreme Court&#8217;s orders. In the first round of talks \u2014 which lasted for around two hours \u2014 at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[2553,4301,742,1889,1890,5352,367],"class_list":["post-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-barrister-ali-zafar","tag-constitution","tag-fawad-chaudhry","tag-pakistan-democratic-movement","tag-pdm","tag-pti-chairman-imran-khan","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}