PTI may 'resume talks' with federal government

PESHAWAR:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister Shaukat Yousafzai has hinted at a resumption of the PTI's talks with the government.

Yousafzai, while reacting to the statements of federal ministers regarding the end of the talks, said that the government and the rulers themselves were responsible for creating the deadlock in the negotiations.

He said the PTI had not agreed to the talks due to fear, pressure or at anyone's request but only for the sake of the country.

Unfortunately, he said, the government had considered the talks a game of some sort, adding that the federal government should get serious and announce the formation of a judicial commission so that the talks could resume.

If the government was not sincere towards the country, there was no use of talks, he said. The PTI leader further said the Prime Minister was calling his party an enemy of the country and its ministers anarchists and terrorists.

He said negotiations could not be held in such an environment, that the government had shown arrogance, and that false claims were being made on the state of the economy.

He further said a loan of Rs 27 thousand billion had been taken in two years and another worth one billion dollars was now being taken which meant that the rulers wanted to run the country only on loans.

He questioned as to what would happen to the 'Uraan Pakistan Project' and whether it would also be run on loans.

He said Imran Khan realized the country was headed towards destruction and wanted to save it.