PESHAWAR
The politicians, academicians and civil society here Monday welcomed the efforts of central ameer of Jumat e Islami Pakistan (JIP), Sirajul Haq for evolving a broad based reconciliation among political parties for general elections.
They also welcomed formation of a three-member committee of the PTI comprising Pervez Khattak, Ejaz Chaudhry and Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed to hold dialogue with JIP on the current political and elections related issues.
Dr AH Hilali, former Chairman Political Science Department, University of Peshawar while welcoming the JIP efforts regarding evolving of a grand political reconciliation said that dialogue was a viable option to unite all the political and religious parties including PDM and PTI for same day election in the country.
He said the democratic system cannot strengthen its roots in the country unless all the stakeholders including religious and political parties sit together for result-oriented grand political dialogue to seek solutions to the prevailing socio economic and political challenges.
In democracies, he said political dialogue was an effective tool to resolve all political and election issues and removed misunderstanding among political players.
He said political dialogue between the government and opposition would help develop the much-needed consensus for general elections on the same day inevitable for political and economic stability in Pakistan.
Professor Hilali said unfortunately our politicians did not learn lessons from our history and again started wrangling by closing the doors of political dialogue. He said the doors of negotiations between political parties were never kept closed in democratic setup and there was always flexibility and logic to move forward.
Dr Hilali said if Bangladeshi leaders Hasnia Wajid and Khalida Zia could sit across the table for the sake of their countrymen, then why the government and opposition parties in Pakistan can’t sit together for holding a grand dialogue of political reconciliation for election.
JIP leader and former provincial minister Inayatullah Khan also welcomed reconciliation efforts of the central ameer, Sirajul Haq and formation of a three members committee of PTI to hold talks with his party on political and election issues.
He said JIP strongly believed in political dialogue and its doors are always open for all parties. Inayatullah said the separate elections in KP and Punjab and other provinces would further aggravate the political and economic situation in the country.
Ikhtair Wali said that PTI had never positively reciprocated to the dialogue offer of the government and made a big political blunder by dissolving the KP and Punjab assemblies.
He said PTI’s demand for early elections in these provinces in the wake of the poor economic situation of the country was irrational and beyond logic.
Ikhtair Wali asked Imran Khan to leave egoism and stubbornness and sit with the government for initiation of a result-oriented and meaningful dialogue for election.
He said early elections in Punjab and KP would have a direct effect on the national assembly and SIndh and Balochistan’s polls besides plunging the country into a deep political crisis in future.
