PPP\u2019s Bilawal says dialogue \u201cneed of the hour\u201d while PML-N\u2019s Javed Latif against talking to \u201cmiscreant in Zaman Park\u201d
\n ISLAMABAD
\nThe ruling allies have hit a snag over holding talks with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources told Geo News Tuesday, after Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s (JI) bid to bring both sides to the negotiation table.
\nThe coalition partners \u2014 an alliance of 13 political parties in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) \u2014 met in Islamabad after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif convened a meeting on the country\u2019s political situation and the JI\u2019s negotiation efforts.
\nDuring the meeting, a disagreement took place among the parties in the coalition government over holding talks with the opposition party as some believed that PTI Chairman Imran Khan could not be trusted, while others insisted that political forces should not shut channels for negotiations.
\nPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari stressed holding dialogue with the opposition, with Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Balochistan National Party, Balochistan Awami Party, Chaudhry Salik, and Mohsin Dawar backing him, sources said.
\nThe PPP chairman said closing the door for talks is against his party\u2019s principles and \u201cundemocratic\u201d.
\n\u201cIt is the need of the hour that the path of dialogue be adopted and the country taken out of the crisis,\u201d Bilawal said.
\nBut representatives of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Jamhoori Wattan Party (JWP) rejected Bilawal\u2019s opinion and said that it isn\u2019t in the coalition\u2019s interests to hold talks with the deposed prime minister \u2014 who was ousted from the office via a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly in April last year.
\n\u201cImran Khan isn\u2019t a political force; we oppose holding dialogue with him,\u201d the JUI-F opined, while JWP\u2019s Shahzain Bugti said that his party did not oppose talks but \u201cImran is a liar\u201d.
\nBugti added that the PTI chairman is \u201cuntrustworthy\u201d.
\nThe meeting ended without reaching a consensus on the matter of holding dialogue, the sources added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PPP\u2019s Bilawal says dialogue \u201cneed of the hour\u201d while PML-N\u2019s Javed Latif against talking to \u201cmiscreant in Zaman Park\u201d ISLAMABAD The ruling allies have hit a snag over holding talks with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources told Geo News Tuesday, after Jamaat-e-Islami\u2019s (JI) bid to bring both sides to the negotiation table. The coalition partners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12529],"class_list":{"0":"post-326691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-ruling-allies"},"yoast_head":"\n