ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Monday once again invited the Opposition parties for dialogue to resolve issues besides working for election, judicial and accountability reforms.
“Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) -led government wants to hold talks with political parties on electoral and judicial reforms. These reforms are not possible without negotiations with the opposition,” the information minister wrote on Twitter.
However, he said, corrupt leaderships of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) do not want to hold talks on anything except relief in their cases.”
Fawad Chaudhry asserted that it will be a positive development if the PML-N distanced itself from the Sharif family. “It is necessary for political parties to change a leadership which suffers from moral and financial corruption,” said Fawad in a tweet.
The federal minister further stated that the PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif left his workers behind during a difficult time and sought refuge in London. “No one respects such a leader,” he added.
The minister’s tweets came a day after he claimed that four of PML-N’s top leaders told ‘someone’ that they should be considered to replace Nawaz.
Addressing a press conference in Lahore, the minister said that PML-N’s top four leaders met ‘someone’ and said that the PML-N supremo did wrong to the country and they should be considered instead.
He also criticised the opposition parties over their anti-government protests, saying the opposition was divided. Fawad claimed that except for the PTI no political party will be able to field its candidates on all seats — 1,100 in total — in the next general elections.
