According to sources who spoke with News, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has assembled a five-person negotiation team for discussions with Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and has given the religious party the names of the participants.
The sources state that PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar, former speaker of the National Assembly Asad Qaiser, party C.I.S. Raoof Hasan, Senator Shibli Faraz, and NA Opposition Leader Omar Ayub Khan are on the negotiation team.
This development occurs as the typically bitter opposing parties’ leaderships have met several times since the votes on February 8 to discuss their shared worries about purported meddling and manipulation during the general elections.
When PTI’s Qasier visited JUI-F Emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Islamabad last month, the two leaders decided to play the opposition role.
on the creation of a political committee to handle their differences and devise a political plan.
Additionally, the resistance of both parties to the recently declared anti-terror campaign named “Operation Azm-e-Istekham” by the government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has brought them together.
The PTI and the JUI-F leadership emphasized during the aforementioned meeting that political parties play a crucial role in bringing about peace and stability in the province and insisted that military operations were not the answer to the issues at hand.
However, a day earlier, Fazl told the media in Islamabad that the party’s Majlis-e-Shura, or top decision-making body, had expressed “serious reservations” about the PTI in light of rumors that the party has opted not to join any alliance for the time being.
