PTI govt decides to hold talks with BNP-M, GDA
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Saturday announced that it would reach out to the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) and the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) to address their grievances.
According to details, the government’s coordination committee will hold meetings with representatives of BNP-M and GDA next week and then apprise Prime Minister Imran Khan regarding the reservations and demands of its allies.
The co-ordination committee will meet leaders from the GDA next week.
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The committee will apprise Prime Minister Imran about the reservations of its coalition partners.
The meetings are being held to ensure that the government knows about the reservations and demands of its allies.
The development comes a few days after BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal threatened to leave the coalition government over the arrest of four women from Balochistan’s Awaran district.
Mengal had led a sit-in protest in front of the speaker’s dais at the national assembly to protest the women’s arrest.
He had accused the government of being negligent about he rights of the people of Balochistan.
“Neither did the previous government want to take Balochistan forward neither does this one,” he had said during his speech in the parliament.
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Mengal had blamed the government and said that when it wanted to secure votes, it contacted him or Shahzain Bugti.
A few days ago, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held talks with an MQM-P delegation in Karachi.
The MQM-P leadership had assured the foreign minister that it had stood with the government since day one and will continue to do so.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan directed the federal government to bring necessary legislation in the parliament within six months about the extension in General Qamar Javed Bajwa’s tenure as army chief and other matters related to his post.
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Ever since the apex court’s order, the government has started contacting allies.
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