Senate chairman says both sides mutually agreed to postpone the negotiations to Tuesday evening
\n ISLAMABAD
\nThe government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have mutually agreed to change the timing of negotiations to break the ongoing political and constitutional impasse and agree on one date for holding elections in the country.
\nThe third round of negotiations were originally planned for 11am on May 2nd but, according to Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani, they have been moved to 9pm on the same day as per a mutual agreement.
\nThe talks between the government and PTI will be held at the Senate Secretariat, Sanjrani confirmed on Monday.
\nThe decision to change the negotiation time was made due to the busy schedules of the members of the government and the PTI negotiation committees, he explained.
\nEfforts to find common ground through dialogue between the leaders of the ruling alliance and the PTI have continued as the talks remained on track. However, the talks have not yet yielded results so far. Leaders from both sides have refused to let their differences come in the way of forging a consensus on general elections.
\nOn the second day of talks, the government and the PTI teams once again entered a room in the Parliament House, shut the door, only to emerge after a couple of hours, agreeing that the third \u2013 possibly final \u2013 round would take place on Tuesday after which a decision would be announced.
\nThough the leaders sounded hopeful about future prospects, the second round of talks ended with both sides agreeing to take input from their leadership and continue negotiations.
\nOn Saturday, PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry announced that the former ruling party has decided to continue negotiations with the government regarding the framework for elections within the bounds of the Constitution.
\nTaking to Twitter, Fawad stated that the PTI is committed to upholding the orders of the Supreme Court and rejecting any attempts to \u201csabotage the talks\u201d.
\nHe further said that the final agenda for the negotiations will be discussed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senate chairman says both sides mutually agreed to postpone the negotiations to Tuesday evening ISLAMABAD The government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have mutually agreed to change the timing of negotiations to break the ongoing political and constitutional impasse and agree on one date for holding elections in the country. The third round of negotiations were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n