*PPP leader calls for high-powered parliamentary committee with full mandate to hold talks with Khan, Qadri
A high powered Parliamentary Committee consisting of seasoned and non- controversial politicians inclusive of treasury benches with full mandate should be immediately formed to hold talks with Imran Khan and Dr Tahirul Qadari directly to bring out fruitful outcome without fail, said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo in a statement issued from the Party Secretariat on Sunday.
He called upon PTI and PAT leaders not to insist on the resignation of the prime minister which was the thorny issue and as such holding back the progress in the negotiations at present. It is imperative to get the country’s politics out of the closed alley cautioning if the gridlock was not broken it would inevitably lead to sealing the fate of the agitating parties altogether.
He further said that the resignation of the prime minister should be made conditional to the outcome of the rigging allegations by the Judicial Commission.
He suggested that the process of electoral reforms should also be initiated at the same time to hold transparent, fair and free elections in the country.
He pointed out that the politics of point scoring should be jettisoned for the sake of national politics which was constitution, democracy and the rule of law. Spewing venom on each other would not get us anywhere and in the process will erode the political ground from underneath their feet, he added.
Wattoo referred to the Afghanistan’s politics where Dr Ghani and Dr Abdullah Abdullah have found the solution of their political deadlock by accommodating each other point of view, adding that now Afghanistan would be blessed with the much needed political stability to deal with extremists and terrorists forces and the international community would be happily forthcoming to help them in a big way.
He said that the warring parties should take leaf from the Afghanistan political opponents and settle the dust as early as possible because the political vacuum had to be filled that may be or may not be of our liking.
He commented that warring parties should realise that their head-strong position in country’s politics was costing billions of rupees to the nation besides earning bad name for the country right across the globe. If they cannot converge for the sake of national interests then the people will definitely raise the piercing questions about their commitment to the cause of the people and the country.