PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry said on Sunday that his party wanted negotiations with the government to be successful but at the same time contended that it had a “strategy” in place if the talks failed.
“PTI wants the success of negotiations [with the government], but it has formulated a strategy in case of failure,” the former minister tweeted.
“It is not possible for the PTI to sit silently if the Constitution is considered as a piece of garbage and the public as insects,” he said, calling on people to prepare for a “movement”.
“The movement is starting tomorrow with rallies in Lahore, Islamabad, and Peshawar, culminating into a historic long march,” Fawad added.
Talks between the government and the PTI started earlier this week on orders of the Supreme Court. The development what was seen as a breakthrough in the weeks-long deadlock on elections between the ruling coalition and the opposition.
After two rounds of talks, the parties are now expected to hold the final round of negotiations on May 2.
However, something dramatic happens, it seems Tuesday will be a tough day for the PTI and government negotiators, with the former seeking the dissolution of assemblies before May 14 and the latter appearing in no mood to entertain this demand.
With both major parties refusing to budge from their respective stances, chances that the dialogue will yield positive results are starting to look “very slim”.
Speaking to party workers on Saturday night, former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan said his party would be ready to discuss the election date only after the dissolution of the NA before May 14 — the cut-off date for elections in Punjab.
“The PTI’s negotiating team will meet the government’s team for the third round on Tuesday (May 2) and present its demand to dissolve the National Assembly before May 14, otherwise [PTI] will go ahead with the Punjab general elections as per Supreme Court’s order,” Imran said and added the PTI would also approach the apex court for earliest general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the constitutional time frame of 90 days had already passed.
On the other hand, in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at Model Town a day earlier, the senior leadership of the PML-N decided it would not back down from its demand for simultaneous polls across the country.
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