ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has questioned the dialogue process with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government after the ruling coalition failed to arrange a meeting between incarcerated PTI founding chairman Imran Khan and the party’s negotiation committee. 

The meeting could not be held despite earlier promises that it would go ahead. Speaking about the delayed meeting with the former premier Imran Khan in Adiala jail before the next round of talks, the PTI leadership said doubts now loom large over whether the other side is in a position to deliver. Despite the government side’s inability to provide its negotiation committee with access to the party supremo in Adiala jail, the PTI leadership has categorically stated that it is not backing out of the dialogue process. At the same time, it is waiting for the government’s next ‘excuse’. “It [the delay] is affecting the dialogue process, and not only that, the failure to arrange a meeting with Imran Khan Sahib has raised a big question mark on how powerful the government, its negotiation committee, allied parties, and the deputy prime minister actually are,” PTI Information Secretary Sheikh Waqas Akram told. “The ruling PML-N, PPP, MQM-P, and its other allies haven’t yet been able to arrange a meeting with Khan Sahib,” Akram said.

“Will they be able to accept our demands, including the release of PTI leaders and workers, and the formation of judicial commissions on the May 9 and November 26 incidents?”