The government has decided to form two committees to hold talks with leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) to avert any threat to national interests.
The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after reviewing the political situation in the wake of ‘sit-ins’ in Islamabad.
Addressing a press conference after the meeting, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the committees would comprise representatives of all political parties. He said a formal announcement about the composition of the committees and their mandate would be made soon.
He said the committees would immediately start their work and the government was ready to accept all constitutional and legal demands of the two parties.
He said any attempt to get unconstitutional demands accepted through threats of violence would harm the state and would be tantamount to introducing the law of the jungle. “Once such an attempt is allowed to succeed more violent groups would keep on emerging in the days ahead with their wish-lists.”
