The letter, penned from behind bars, advocates initiating a national dialogue to pull the country back from the brink of political paralysis.
PPP Information Secretary Nadeem Afzal, responding to a social media post featuring the letter, said that if the letter was genuine, it represented a positive development.
He added that the government should engage PTI in dialogue to strengthen democracy.
Afzal said there was a need for a visionary approach, akin to that of former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, under whose leadership the Charter of Democracy was formulated.
The letter, reportedly written by four jailed PTI leaders — former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, former provincial ministers Mehmood-ur-Rasheed and Yasmin Rashid, and former Punjab governor Umar Sarfraz Cheema — stressed the urgent need for dialogue across all platforms, including with the government and the establishment.
It also called for the PTI leadership to be granted access to the party’s patron-in-chief, Imran Khan, so they could seek his continued guidance on all matters.
PPP Central Punjab General Secretary Hasan Murtaza, speaking to The Express Tribune, said dialogue was the appropriate path to resolving longstanding political issues, but stressed that dialogue should be held only with political stakeholders.
He said it was time for PTI’s founder to “start behaving like a party chief, not a military chief”.
Commenting on recent developments in the Punjab Assembly, Murtaza said the PPP supported actions taken against PTI’s provincial assembly members, arguing that their conduct had warranted such measures.