{"id":35056,"date":"2026-01-08T03:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35056"},"modified":"2026-01-08T03:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T03:04:28","slug":"govt-signals-willingness-to-engage-pti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35056","title":{"rendered":"Govt signals willingness to engage PTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly given the go-ahead to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to proceed with negotiations between the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources said on Wednesday, a significant development in efforts to cool political temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary sources said that the government side has agreed to take part in the talks at the speaker&#8217;s request. However, discussions will only be held with PTI&#8217;s elected representatives, while no engagement is planned with unelected party figures.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the government&#8217;s readiness, the sources said, no PTI leader has yet formally approached the Office of the Speaker to begin the negotiation process, and initial outreach remains pending from the opposition&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Ayaz Sadiq has meanwhile retained the existing parliamentary committee structure. The sources said that if the opposition signals willingness, the speaker is prepared to immediately convene a meeting of the committee to begin formal discussions.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite the speaker&#8217;s earlier invitation, there has been no contact so far from the opposition benches. The speaker has already offered PTI the option of attending negotiations within his parliamentary chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The last formal interaction between PTI representatives and the speaker took place over the nomination of Mahmood Khan Achakzai as the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reportedly given the go-ahead to National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq to proceed with negotiations between the government and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), sources said on Wednesday, a significant development in efforts to cool political temperatures. Parliamentary sources said that the government side has agreed to take part in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}