Govt's response to PTI demands ready, says Irfan Siddiqui

PML-N Senator Irfan Siddiqui said on Monday that the government’s response to the PTI’s demands was ready and the party’s committee would be intimated about it at the meeting scheduled to be held at 11:30 AM tomorrow, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.

Talking exclusively to the 24News TV channel, the senator said that the PTI leaders kept changing their statements. 

He said the government was not waiting for the party to resume talks. 

However, Siddiqui said that the government still believed in negotiations to find a solution to the problems confronting the country. 

He assured that journalists were not the target of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). “The purpose of the Act is to rein in those who attack the national security, and not those journalists who adhere to journalistic norms and are doing good work.” he elaborated.    

It was time, he went on to say, that the culture of character assassination and mudslinging on social media was put to an end.  

Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House on Friday, PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, flanked by PTI leaders Omar Ayub Khan, Shibli Faraz, and Ali Mohammad Khan, said that Imran had approved negotiations despite the long charge sheet against him and the party.

“The government has not yet announced the formation of judicial commissions even after the deadline passed yesterday,” he said, adding that the negotiations ended because the government was “not serious at any stage.”

He had further said, “We presented the government with simple demands during the negotiations. What was wrong with announcing the formation of a judicial commission?”

“The PTI founder has told us to call off the talks over the government’s failure to form the judicial commissions,” he said.

He added that the PTI was looking forward to the talks but they had to be called off “due to non-cooperation from the government.”
 

Reporter: Awais Kiyani